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iBlog - Ilia Alshanetsky · Jul 12, 2026

Malcolm X Is Not a Suffix

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Parse Malcolm X with almost any name splitter and you get a suffix. X looks like a roman numeral, roman numerals are suffixes ( John III , Henry VIII ), so X becomes the suffix and the surname disappears. That's the kind of bug you only find once you already have a working parser, because it isn't a missing rule. It's two correct rules wanting the same token. Last month I wrote about the casing…

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