Thread: St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
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Old June 30th 06, 01:31 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit
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Default St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
In article .com writes:
Big and Blue wrote:
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This, strictly speaking is incorrect. Street signage by statutory
bodies should NOT contain punctuation.
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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.

And indeed, all signs in that neighbourhood have the exclamation mark.
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