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From How to Alphabetize Things:
2. Ignore spaces and punctuation. There are different English-language standards about what to do with spaces; this is the one that best corresponds with the way the TV Tropes internal database works. For example, I Was Never Here would go after Item Crafting, not before. Note that hyphens and apostrophes are treated as punctuation.
3. Shorter entries alphabetize before longer entries containing them. Big Bad comes before Big Bad Ensemble.
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Thanks.
The library rule is "nothing before something" (which fits with the "shorter before longer" mentioned in a previous post) so it should be:
Adaptation Adaptational
I ask because every entry for a trope beginning with those words on the Dæmorphing page was added by me, and I noticed yesterday that they're definitely out of order. I don't know a better place to ask this; it doesn't seem fitting for the help with English thread.