Dzień dobry! Jako ukrainiec nie rozumiem, jak działa ten podział na grupy w sposób alfabetyczny. To po prostu różni się od tego, z czym miałem do czynienia wcześniej. Będę wdzięczny za wyjaśnienie (:

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  1. I’m assuming the last person in group 1’s name is Fry-something and the first person in group 2’s name is God-something. And in between those two people there aren’t any others. It’s done so that if the group split is between people whose name start with the same letter.

  2. It’s library type of division. You’ll meet it e.g. in Encyclopedia that’s voluminous (splited in multibook printing).

    It’s still alphabetical but group is divided in parts so “Kalimowski” up to “Krzysztoń” would be in group 2 but “Kubala” and all the next people with *Ku+* in a list would be in group 3 because “u” is after “r” in Polish alphabet.

  3. The entirety of polish alphabet just to help you: A Ą B C Ć D E Ę F G H I J K L Ł M N Ń O Ó P R S Ś T U W Y Z Ź Ż

  4. When you want to divide things semi-evenly, but have more members of a certain group than the other ones, you may want to further divide that group.

    For example, you could have

    * 5 people starting with A – F
    * 3 people starting with G
    * 7 people starting with K

    but the group size is supposed to be 5 for even split.

    What do you do in this case? You pick the problematic group and give part of it to another one to make separate 5-person groups.

    * 5 people A-F
    * 5 people G-K
    * 5 people K-O

    But then there’s an issue, how do you know where exactly cut-off for K* lays? Let’s say you want to find “Kranik” in there, which group do you check in? It could be in either, depending how many things are alphabetically before or after it. If there’s 3 “Kareta” it would be in the second one, but if there’s none of them, maybe in the first?

    So you add the marks in form of additional letters to explain that for easy search.

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    This is usually done in libraries and some health centres so you can have a proper split by author’s / patient’s name without overloading one drawer. It makes it for quicker search and compensates for people having a lot of the same name (eg. 17 Nowaks but 2 Myszek) and bloating the index.

  5. If you’re from Ukraine, you must have had a Big Soviet Encyclopedia at home. Remember how the volumes of it were named?

  6. I’ve never seen it before. Seems stupid. Where would a person called Który go?

  7. Don’t worry, I’m a native and don’t know how it works either

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