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Richard J.

wrote in various posts in this thread:

If it is a street name sign it should read "St James Park".

This [St James's on street signs] strictly speaking is
incorrect. Street signage by statutory bodies should
NOT contain punctuation.

I have understood for many years that this is the convention
in English speaking countries.

In point of fact, BS7666 would seem to formalize this convention
from a local government perspective within the UK.

And I am not sure why this is so important to you.

Only because I do not like to see apparently authoritative statements
that are incorrect left unchallenged. If Leeds, Hackney, Larimer County
or anywhere else want to lay down restrictions on the naming of *new
streets*, that is up to them. But we were discussing established names
such as St John's Wood and St James's Street. The fact is that these do
appear ( maybe not entirely consistently) on street name signs with
their apostrophes, and that BS7666 specifically endorses the use of
apostrophes in these circumstances ("apostrophes ... may be used where
they form part of an official name").

But if it is important to you to have puntuation in your street
names, please go ahead. I really don't care. :-)

Now he tells us! :-)

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Richard J.
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