Thread: St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
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Old July 3rd 06, 01:06 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?
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 10:31:02 on
Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Richard M Willis
remarked:
I would call our currency pounds xor pence.

So:

£1 coin is a "One pounds coin" and
£10.50 is either "Ten point five pounds", or "One thousand and 50 pence"

I don't think any of this is in general usage.

Or "Ten guineas". (But that's not in general usage either).
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