andrzej zaborowski wrote: > I'd say the opposite is true. If it's pronounced "Saint Albans" > then that is the name.
Pronunciation in English only ever serves to mislead. :) 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'. That, to me, is a pretty conclusive argument that we should tag "St". (I'm only talking about the UK, of course, and in fact this discussion would be better on talk-gb.) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/shortened-names-tp6556816p6625525.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
