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Should Attorney at Law after a comma read as a credential? (Hiruni Wijesinghe, Attorney at Law, M.P. gives given 'at', family 'Hiruni Wijesinghe') #1243
Sri Lanka's Parliament writes a lawyer member as Hon. Hiruni Wijesinghe, Attorney at Law, M.P.. Attorney is in en.toml as a title, so C1 (the suffix comma decision) reads the part after the comma as the given part, opened by a title (measured on master ccaf6ad):
Input
title
given
middle
family
suffix
Hiruni Wijesinghe, Attorney at Law, M.P.
Attorney
at
Law
Hiruni Wijesinghe
M.P.
Hiruni Wijesinghe, Attorney at Law
Attorney
at
Law
Hiruni Wijesinghe
Hiruni Wijesinghe, Attorney-at-Law
Attorney-at-Law
Hiruni Wijesinghe
Hiruni Wijesinghe, Barrister at Law
Barrister
at
Law
Hiruni Wijesinghe
Hiruni Wijesinghe, Barrister-at-Law
Barrister-at-Law
Hiruni Wijesinghe
Hiruni Wijesinghe Attorney at Law
Hiruni
Wijesinghe Attorney at
Law
Hiruni Wijesinghe, M.P.
Hiruni
Wijesinghe
M.P.
How often: 25 of the 225 current members on parliament.lk's English list, and 3 of the 657 past members I read. The phrase is the professional designation of a lawyer in Sri Lanka, written after the name; Attorney-at-Law with hyphens is the usual spelling elsewhere (Sri Lankan letterheads, and the same designation in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago). Nothing in docs/design/ or the issues mentions it.
Questions
A suffix reading is of one word, so Attorney at Law can't be listed as it stands. Should the hyphenated attorney-at-law and barrister-at-law be listed as credentials written as words, and the spaced phrase left as it is?
Or should a comma part made wholly of Attorney + at + Law be read as a credential phrase, the way H9 reads a title phrase?
Behind which comma? Here the phrase stands between the name and M.P., so it is the second of three parts; C13 (a credential opening the part after the comma) would reach it if Attorney were a credential, but it is a title.
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