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June 29th 06, 06:42 PM
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St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
thoss wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 Stephen Sprunk wrote: 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). Well, the first change is welcome because your original is wrong IMHO. To quote the Concise Oxford Dictionary "Abbreviations are made chiefly in two ways....(2)Some portion of the middle of the word is dropped out, the first and last letter being retained...the writing of a full stop at the end of these, though now usual, is to be deprecated....The method adopted in the following list is to omit the otiose full stop". -- Thoss Anyone who abbreviates Cheshunt should do so cautiously.... |
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