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Old June 29th 06, 10:31 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit
[email protected] adrian_h_hudson@yahoo.com is offline
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Default St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?


Big and Blue wrote:
wrote:

This, strictly speaking is incorrect. Street signage by statutory
bodies should NOT contain punctuation.


This is law?


This is a question for an attorney.

To my knowledge it is a very well established convention.

Does it apply to road signs to Westward Ho! ?

Who knows? My guess is that this would be an exception, based on the
"!" being part of the proper name.

Adrian.