Thread: St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
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Old June 27th 06, 06:44 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit
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Default St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
On 26 Jun 2006 10:13:51 -0700, wrote:


Tristán White wrote:
The roundels are wrong.

His name is John, not Johns.

Therefore, the apostrophe HAS to go between the n and the s. Any other
signage is the product of illiterate designers.

JOHN'S

MARTIN'S




In the case of plural nouns, the apostrophe always goes afterwards. So

SPANIARDS' INN
if it refers to more than one Spaniard, or else

SPANIARD'S INN


Where there is some discussion is if the given name already ends with S.

Eg JAMES'S PALACE
or JAMES' PALACE

But never JAMES PALACE



The official line is, certainly as far as the University of London is


The name is derived from the Saint or Saints (there being two of
them), reference to any other John being irrelevent. Generally as in
French,when writing in majescules, such technical drama as punctuation
is not only unnecessary but not easily read by those hard of hearing,
thinking or seeing. people other than car drivers may also find
difficulty as grammar has not been taught in UK for a very long time.
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