Tag: contractions

Categories
Uncategorized

You’ve come a long way, baby : women, politics, and popular culture / edited by Lilly J. Goren. (OCLC #642464862)

I’d never considered contractions like “you’ve” to warrant assigning a variant title (RDA 2.3.6) with the contraction expanded, as has been done in this record: 

    245 00 ǂa You've come a long way, baby : ǂb women,
        politics, and popular culture / ǂc edited by Lilly 
        J. Goren.
    246 3_ ǂa You have come a long way, baby

That said, I don’t see an RDA rule encouraging variant titles for spelling out numerals or abbreviations. Maybe they are generally referenced under c, “assigned by the creator or by previous owners or custodians of the resource”.

Categories
Uncategorized

This is temporary : how transient projects are redefining architecture / edited by: Cate St Hill. (OCLC #919342602)

For this record, it was tempting to add a full stop following St in the author’s name, although it does not appear that way anywhere on the book, or on the author’s web site. We often do that in American English when words are abbreviated, as in St. Louis, or Mr. Mom. However, in British English when the shortened word is more of a contraction (say, the first and last letter) instead of an abbreviation (the first couple of letters), no full stop is used; for example: Mr for Mister, Dr for Doctor, St for Saint, but still Wed. for Wednesday.

The editor of this title is based in London, which may explain the punctuation used on this piece, and I transcribed that to the record:

    245 00 ǂa This is temporary : ǂb how transient projects
        are redefining architecture / ǂc edited by: Cate St Hill.
    700 1_ ǂa St Hill, Cate, ǂe editor.