[derek73]

Part of #1115, the Diplom degrees.

What changes

dipl is listed alone (mul.toml, academic). A token whose chunks a period joins already reads as a title when any chunk is a title (v1's rule for Lt.Gov.), so every field written after Dipl with a period now reads as one, whatever the field:

Anselm Crombach, Dipl.-Psych.   given 'Dipl.-Psych.', family 'Anselm Crombach'  →  title 'Dipl.-Psych.', given 'Anselm', family 'Crombach'   (1.4.0 through 2.8.2)
Dipl.-Kfm. Dalimil Ospalý       given 'Dipl.-Kfm.', middle 'Dalimil'             →  title 'Dipl.-Kfm.', given 'Dalimil'
Josef Mareček, dipl.um.         suffix 'dipl.um.'                                →  title 'dipl.um.'

The per-compound listing and the separator-insensitive match proposed on #1115 are declined as unneeded. rules/S3 now states the title-chunk reading, which v1 had but no rule stated. An Except bullet says a period-joined word the vocabulary does not list whole is a title before the name and after a comma when any chunk is a title, read before its suffix chunks (Dr.PH stays its listed credential). An Accepted bullet records the readings that reach beyond the degrees (MD.MS, St.John).

Measured

160 corpus names hold dipl as a word; 58 move (2026-11-06, 8c1cc709):

• 34 a degree leaving a name field (19 ClinicalTrials.gov officials written Name, Dipl.-Psych. stop reversing)
• 24 from suffix to title

Costs, in decisions/H6's 2026-11-06 Diplom entry:

• a spaced degree inside a run of post-nominals splits off its field (3 names, CLDR's Bosnian dipl. stom. among them; its agreement record is re-recorded)
• a degree ending a credential run leaves ; or & behind (2)
• a degree glued to a name word takes the word, as Dr. does (1)
• a glued degree ending a name now reads as a name word where it read as a suffix: with no comma it is the family name (Maxie Bunz Dipl.Psych. → family 'Dipl.Psych.', middle 'Bunz'), and after a family comma a middle name (Doe, John Dipl.Ing.). No corpus name with Dipl takes either shape, and it is what John Smith Lt.Gov. already gives. It is accepted here and recorded as rules/S3's Accepted bullet, and Should Hans Meier Priv.-Doz. read the listed title at the end, as Hans Meier Prof. does? #1116 is widened to cover both shapes, since its fix to H5's trailing run reaches them.

Left as they read: a field joined by a hyphen alone (Dipl-Psych, 3), since the chunk rule splits at periods only and hyphenated surnames hold title words; a spaced field without its period (Dipl. Biol, Dipl Ing, 6); and the spaced form before a family comma (1).

Review

The design-docs review confirmed the 160/58/34/24 measurement, read every moved name, swept every comma shape and order, checked the case views and checked the release claim against eleven wheels from 1.4.0 to 2.8.2. It found the trailing regression above, S3's missing title-chunk precedence, two cut credential runs, an undercount of the spaced-field leftovers, the 20 writers behind the 19 moves, and an unreproducible spelling count. All are fixed in the second commit. A second-round review of that commit's S3 bullets found the Except's lead false for a word listed whole, unscoped by slot, and wider than its argument, plus the family-comma move above; all are fixed in the third commit.

Test plan

• uv run pytest (39,190 passed) and uv run pytest -n0 -m serial
• uv run mypy, uv run ruff check
• uv run sphinx-build -b doctest docs and the html build

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