John Smith wrote: > The period after St. is the correct way in English to abbreviate > Saint, where as the abbreviation of street doesn't have a period.
Not in British English, it isn't. "_Saint._ St or S. is better than St. for the abbreviation (see PERIOD IN ABBR.); Pl. Sts or SS." That's from Fowler's Modern English Usage, which is as close as there is to an authority in British English style. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/shortened-names-tp6556816p6625848.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
