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Old June 26th 06, 01:33 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?


James Farrar wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:35:30 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

Highly amusing what you wrote about the two saints! I hail from two
institutions where that rule does apply, but people inevitably get in
wrong - Kings' House (in my old school - after Kings Charles I and II)
and Queens' College, Cambridge


But, just to keep you on your toes, Queen's College, Oxford!


One Queen at Oxford; there's only one Queen at Oxford! :-)

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James Farrar
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Reminds me of the old college joke, about the fresh-faced undergraduate
walking along the Cam, looking for the Queens' College boathouse, and
coming across a group of beefy looking oarsmen, saying, "are you lot
Queens' ", before being upended into the river.

Well, it made me laugh when I first heard it!

Marc.