Stupid odd question
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Stupid odd question
When typing a Mc/Mac name in ALLCAPS does the 'c' bit stay small? MCLAREN or McLAREN? I've never been sure, and they both look wrong.
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No idea which is correct, but I think McLAREN looks better.
On a slightly related note, Ipswich Town have recently signed a "Mc" player on loan with an interesting spelling quirk, Aaron Mclean. Not McLean, not McClean, but Mclean. At least in the official write ups I've seen anyway. What's all that about? Never seen a "Mc" spelt like it before...
On a slightly related note, Ipswich Town have recently signed a "Mc" player on loan with an interesting spelling quirk, Aaron Mclean. Not McLean, not McClean, but Mclean. At least in the official write ups I've seen anyway. What's all that about? Never seen a "Mc" spelt like it before...
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I'd say it'd be MC. I think the reason the 'c' isn't capitalised normally is to show that they were originally two separate words. At the risk of sounding patronising:
Mc is 'son' in old Gaelic, so I'd imagine that originally it'd have been written separately, much like the Ap prefix still is in Welsh (Ap Dafydd, rather than ApDafydd).
Mc is 'son' in old Gaelic, so I'd imagine that originally it'd have been written separately, much like the Ap prefix still is in Welsh (Ap Dafydd, rather than ApDafydd).
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