Thread: St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
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Old July 2nd 06, 08:54 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?

"Phil Clark" wrote in message ...
On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:46:01 GMT, "AstraVanMan"
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"Phil Clark" wrote:
Modern Dutch uses apostrophes in the plural of certain (or all?) nouns
ending in a long single vowel, such as "2 taxi's" or "3 piano's".

So does English...

No it doesn't.

I should have used a smiley for irony but couldn't think of one...

I use this one

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My current pet hate is panini's, which is wrong on two counts.
Is panini already a plural word ?

Richard [in PE12]



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