Thread: St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
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Old June 27th 06, 01:59 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit
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Default St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
In article "Stephen Sprunk" writes:
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In general, all punctuation and diacritical marks are dropped to make signs
and addresses as easy to read/write as possible. Therefore "St. John's"
becomes "St Johns" (notice the two changes).

As far as I know in British English there is no full stop following an
abbreviation if the last letter of the abbreviation is also the last
letter of the complete word. (This is different in US English.)
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