Thread: St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
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Old July 3rd 06, 09:41 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, 03 Jul 2006 12:05:39 GMT, Chris Tolley
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Richard M Willis wrote:

zero centimetre, one centimetre, two centimetre.

Arguable. Perhaps correct in technical documents, but to TMOTCO, it's
zero centimetres, one centimetre, two centimetres.

Technical documents would always abbreviate.

Describing a length as "zero centimetres" is redundant, incidentally;
if the length is zero it's zero whatever the unit and thus is probably
best phrased as "zero length", depending on context.

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