On 27/07/2011 11:58, John Smith wrote:
On 27 July 2011 20:50, David Earl<da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
While St Albans isn't big enough to feature in the list in this document, it
does have "St. Helens" (sic). Why the period? The district council's website
The period after St. is the correct way in English to abbreviate
Saint, where as the abbreviation of street doesn't have a period.
Hmm. OK, then reverse the question. Why do so many places including St
Albans not use the a period? Could it be as Richard and I were saying
that St is now an accepted spelling of the word which means a beatified
person rather than being just an abbreviation. Like "laser" and arguably
"email" are words now.
David
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