Thread: St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
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Old July 8th 06, 06:59 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 Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:41:52 GMT, Chris Tolley
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:08:25 GMT, Chris Tolley
wrote:

Phil Clark wrote:

one of those words that is always plural, like trousers.

Never stayed in a hotel room with a trouser press?

Adjectival form.

Pardon? If you are saying that trouser is an adjective, then I'm
beginning to wonder what it means, and if it is part of the sequence:
trous, trouser, trousest.

Sure it's an adjective. It modifies the word "press", telling you what
kind of a press it is.

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