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Old June 21st 06, 12:59 PM posted to uk.transport.london
John Rowland John Rowland is offline
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Default St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?

Richard M Willis wrote:

However one uses an apostrophe (or doesn't have one), it
must be consistent with the station name being a NOUN PHRASE !

A station can not be called "Everything in the garden is green and
lovely"


Why not? About five tube stations are named after pubs, and a pub called
"Everything in the garden is green and
lovely" is not too hard to imagine... or is it? Surely some pub names are
not noun phrases?