The First Shall be Last, and The Last First: As the holder of an A-name he spent his life as one of the alphabetical elites. Just imagine him as a publishing scholar: If his co-authors are more than two, the names might just be listed in alphabetical order, in which case his name will appear in scholarly indexes, and those with names at the end of the alphabet will be subsumed under the hated et al., meaning "and others." Isn't it time to bury et al. and its discriminatory tendencies? Spring Grove Cemetery. [2018]
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