Thread: St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
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Old July 3rd 06, 09:38 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 11:18:56 +0100, "Richard M Willis"
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"James Farrar" wrote in message

Simply wrong. It's the singular form of pence in the same way that
pound is the singular form of pounds.

"penny" is the singular form of "pence", so that "pence" is inherently
plural ?! I didn't know that.

You learn something every day.

In fact, I didn't know that units of measurement *had* plurals !

zero pence, one pence, two pence, .. in the same
way
as
zero centimetre, one centimetre, two centimetre.

London and Paris are 211 mile apart, are they?

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