On 27 July 2011 21:48, David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote: > "Commonly abbreviated S. or St. ... Abbreviations: S. and St., pl. SS. and > Sts. Since the 18th c. ‘St.’ is the form usually employed; but since about > 1830 ‘S.’ has been favoured by ecclesiologists. In place-names, and in > family names derived from these, only ‘St.’ is used [clearly not true!]."
The other practice is dropping punctuation marks from signs... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
