On 27 July 2011 12:01, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> wrote: > Increasingly you can treat "St" as a valid spelling of the word "saint", > rather than merely an abbreviation. No (educated) native English speaker > would write a placename with 'Saint', and every native English speaker would > pronunce St in that context as 'saint'.
Still only if provided with enough context to correctly guess which of the words spelt St it is. This isn't the most complicated case, you only need to process about one word ahead as context (or in this case perhaps just knowing it's at the start of the name), but for many tasks it would be great to eliminate the guessing. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
