It depends on the context. St Kilda in Melbourne is another example where that is used instead of 'Saint'.
Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Jun 2018, at 10:28, cleary <[email protected]> wrote: > > In New South Wales, the Geographic Names Board register shows the Sydney > suburb Mount Druitt (no abbreviation) while the adjacent suburb is St Marys > (always St and never Saint). The same applies to places named St Peters and > St Leonards. Using the word "Saint" would not accord with the places' > official names. > > I understand there is a tendency to remove sectarian references so that "St" > can be pronounced as the speaker wishes and is not necessarily "Saint". > > > > >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, at 5:21 AM, Nathan Ginther (Insight Global Inc) wrote: >> Hello all, our team has come into an interesting situation regarding road >> name abbreviations, we know that as a policy we spell out any and all >> abbreviations on the OSM map, however it looks like we may have run into an >> exception in the use of “Saint vs St” >> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Invalid_Abbreviation_Expansion). It >> looks like the use of “St” instead of spelling out “Saint” is accepted >> within the mapping community, and might be the proper English spelling, but >> we want to get the response from the community as what is the >> accepted/preferred use when naming roads specifically, should we be spelling >> out Saint, or using St? >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
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