Thread: St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
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Old June 21st 06, 11:55 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 John Rowland wrote:

John B wrote:
wrote:

BARONS COURT / Barons Court (not so much an anomaly as simply both
being wrong, with the absence of an apostrophe)
PARSONS GREEN / Parsons Green (ditto)

"To court" is a verb, and barons is a legitimate plural...having
"green" as a verb would be pushing it a bit, though.

You can write "persons unknown" or "malice aforethought", so why not
"parsons green"?

Have you ever seen a green parson?
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Thoss
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