Alphabetical Order?

Question

I have a list of my movies I am alphabatizing and I need help. My problem is with movies that start with "A". For example:

A Beautiful Mind

A Bugs Life

A Fistful of Dollars

Am I supposed to disregard the "A" completely and start with the next letter? I have a feeling I am and the way I have it set up now is wrong. I have all of those movies under the A's. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

ok what u r supposed 2 do when more than 1 title starts with the same letter is go 2 the next letter. if they have the next letter in common the go 2 the third letter and so on!

4 example: the things u r alphabatizing would go in this order!

     A BEAUTIFUL MIND

     A BUGS LIFE

     A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS        

AND THERE U GO NOW U R ALL ALPHABATIZED!!!!

U R VERY WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

I think you should disregard the A's.  You will also run into the same problem with movies that start with "The".

Answer 3

I would use whatever system makes sense to you.  In the strictest alphabetical systems initial articles are typically dropped.  If it were my movie collection I'd include the A because that's how I'd remember the titles.

Answer 4

don't disregard the A's

Answer 5

A Beautiful Mind

A Bugs Life

A Fistful of Dollars

Answer 6

i dotn think youre supposed to but if you have a movie with "the" in front of it, you're supposed to disregard that

Answer 7

they should all fall under the A's, but then you go by their next letter to determine their orders, and then their third letters if there are ties in say the B's, and so on til all get sorted

Answer 8

The complete movie name is "A Bug's Life".... the name is Noun...... so can't change the spelling.... Keep A with it.

List all in MS Excell and the sort by Name... the issue will be resolved

Answer 9

There is no such thing as "supposed to" or "wrong way".

Creating an index of anything is done to help in retrieval at a later date.

First question then is: Who will do the retrieving, for whom is the list being made?

Then you can move on to: Would that person(s) be more likely to look for a movie using the A or not? That then answers your question on how to create the list.

Some other ideas:

If excluding the 'A', add it as a suffix, e.g. "Bugs Life, A"

If multiple users with different thinking or you are using it to see if there are any matches, you might want to consider listing it twice - e.g. "A Bugs Life" and "Bugs Life, A"

You have the same issue with "The" and possibly "Of", "With" and "And".

And more issues arise when the title includes numbers (should all numbers be listed at the beginning or as if they were spelt, e.g. "4 weddings and..." or "Four weddings and..."?)

Answer 10

Under strict library rules, the words "A", "An" and "The" are disregarded from the title while alphabetizing.  "A Beautiful Mind" should appear in a collection as "Beautiful Mind, A".

If we didn't do this, every file cabinet in the world would be overstuffed in the A and T sections, and all the other letters would have almost nothing filed under them.

Go to any library and look up books in the card catalog (if they haven't completely computerized that thing yet) and you'll see the way that titles are listed.  

If your local video store alphabetizes things under "A" or "The", then it's run by clueless teenagers.

Do a Google search on "Rules for Alphabetizing" and you should get a good list of other helpful rules.  Like the movie "48 Hours" should be filed under "F", as if the number in the title were spelled out.