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JMUpton2000 June 21st 06 12:24 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
Something I wondered as I took a rare journey north of Baker Street on the
Jubilee Line the other day.

The on board scrolling displays and the tube maps say it is spelt St John's
Wood with apostrophe but the platform roundels omit it.

So which is right?

Regards
John M Upton



Mark Brader June 21st 06 01:12 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
John Upton:
The on board scrolling displays and the tube maps say it is spelt St John's
Wood with apostrophe but the platform roundels omit it.


"San John's Wood"? Interesting variation. :-)

So which is right?


Either, both, or neither, as you wish. There is no single definitive
source for the "true" name of an Underground station, and many stations
have had this sort of variation.

Of course, if the station was named after something, and *that* has an
official or universally used spelling, you might take that to be indicative...
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Just because it's correct doesn't
make it right!" -- Jonas Schlein

Dave Arquati June 21st 06 08:37 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
Mark Brader wrote:
John Upton:
The on board scrolling displays and the tube maps say it is spelt St John's
Wood with apostrophe but the platform roundels omit it.


"San John's Wood"? Interesting variation. :-)

So which is right?


Either, both, or neither, as you wish. There is no single definitive
source for the "true" name of an Underground station, and many stations
have had this sort of variation.


Logic would suggest that St John's Wood is more likely to be correct,
because the wood then belongs to St John, rather than being a wood
consisting of multiple "St John"s, or named after "St Johns"...

....whereas Earl's Court or Barons Court could reasonably have their
counterpart spellings, given that a court might either belong to an earl
or a baron, or be composed of multiples thereof.

My local Shepherd's Bush always bugs me, because although most Tube maps
show it "correctly", buses rarely do - partly because although the
location seems to be officially named "Shepherd's Bush" and the green
space is called "Shepherd's Bush Common", the road that runs along the
southeastern and western sides of the Common is apparently "Shepherds
Bush Green"*. Argh!

I can understand how a bush would *belong* to a Shepherd, but a bush
composed of shepherds? Or maybe even "bush" is a verb... dogs bark,
sheep bleat, shepherds bush?

Of course, if the station was named after something, and *that* has an
official or universally used spelling, you might take that to be indicative...


* depending on which maps you consult (A-Z or Bart's) and whether you
prefer the LB Hammersmith & Fulham's usage (which rarely includes an
apostrophe on anything Bush-related).

--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

Tim Roll-Pickering June 21st 06 08:48 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
JMUpton2000 wrote:

Something I wondered as I took a rare journey north of Baker Street on the
Jubilee Line the other day.


The on board scrolling displays and the tube maps say it is spelt St
John's Wood with apostrophe but the platform roundels omit it.


So which is right?


Both, neither who knows.

On Wikipedia the principle that a lot are generally happy with (at least the
last time I'm aware this came up) is to use the current tube map spelling on
the basis that station decorations take a lot longer to change and some
platforms use multiple stations (e.g. King's Cross St. Pancras
Circle/H&C/Met) so this is the only real consistent standard.



Richard M Willis June 21st 06 09:49 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 

"JMUpton2000" securitynovels @ freeuk.com wrote in message
reenews.net...
Something I wondered as I took a rare journey north of Baker Street on the
Jubilee Line the other day.

The on board scrolling displays and the tube maps say it is spelt St

John's
Wood with apostrophe but the platform roundels omit it.

So which is right?


Both and Neither. LUL stations are full of anomalies like this.
D Rose's Diagrammatic History has notes on the subject. There are
many places where station names have mutated and had the "suffix gradually
dropped".

E.g. Totteridge and Whetstone is called simply Totteridge on the actual
station; there is no mention of "and Whetstone" in the station's
name anywhere at that station other than on the system-wide maps.





Regards
John M Upton





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Richard M Willis June 21st 06 09:50 AM

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"John B" wrote in message

"To court" is a verb, and barons is a legitimate plural...having
"green" as a verb would be pushing it a bit, though.


I hope there won't be a LUL station called Ghosts Forge

Richard [in SG19]



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Paul Terry June 21st 06 10:20 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
In message .com,
" writes

BARONS COURT / Barons Court (not so much an anomaly as simply both
being wrong, with the absence of an apostrophe)
PARSONS GREEN / Parsons Green (ditto)


Most place names are far older than the apostrophe, which was a
16th-century invention. For instance, Parsons Green never appears with
an apostrophe on old maps or other documents, even well after the 16th
century.

It is the rather haphazard modernisation of spellings over the years
that has resulted in many of the anomalous uses of apostrophes.

But Barons Court is an exception - it was a name invented just over 100
years ago. It didn't have an apostrophe then, and there is no real
reason to add one now.

--
Paul Terry

James Farrar June 21st 06 10:22 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
On 21 Jun 2006 01:34:59 -0700, "
wrote:

Have a look at the following, PLACE / Station name anomalies:

EARLS COURT / Earl's Court
BARONS COURT / Barons Court (not so much an anomaly as simply both
being wrong, with the absence of an apostrophe)


But "Baron's Court Road".

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John Rowland June 21st 06 10:30 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
John B wrote:
wrote:

BARONS COURT / Barons Court (not so much an anomaly as simply both
being wrong, with the absence of an apostrophe)
PARSONS GREEN / Parsons Green (ditto)


"To court" is a verb, and barons is a legitimate plural...having
"green" as a verb would be pushing it a bit, though.


You can write "persons unknown" or "malice aforethought", so why not
"parsons green"?



thoss June 21st 06 10:55 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 John Rowland wrote:

John B wrote:
wrote:

BARONS COURT / Barons Court (not so much an anomaly as simply both
being wrong, with the absence of an apostrophe)
PARSONS GREEN / Parsons Green (ditto)


"To court" is a verb, and barons is a legitimate plural...having
"green" as a verb would be pushing it a bit, though.


You can write "persons unknown" or "malice aforethought", so why not
"parsons green"?

Have you ever seen a green parson?
--
Thoss

asdf June 21st 06 11:22 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:49:14 +0100, Richard M Willis wrote:

E.g. Totteridge and Whetstone is called simply Totteridge on the actual
station; there is no mention of "and Whetstone" in the station's
name anywhere at that station other than on the system-wide maps.


It says "& Whetstone" at least on the outside of the station building:

http://www.london-underground.de/alb...ne_station.jpg

Richard M Willis June 21st 06 11:39 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
"Paul Terry" wrote in message But Barons
Court is an exception - it was a name invented just over 100

years ago. It didn't have an apostrophe then, and there is no real
reason to add one now.


Indeed, I seem to remember being told that there never was an
actual Baron (fictional or otherwise) after which the place/station
was named: they just called it that to p*** off the people one station
up the line.

Richard [in SG19]



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Richard M Willis June 21st 06 11:41 AM

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"thoss" wrote in message

Have you ever seen a green parson?


Yes. The parson at the place where I used to live dutifully grew
his own veggies, composted the waste therefrom, never used styrofoam
cups, and had no car.

Richard [in SG19]



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Richard M Willis June 21st 06 11:42 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 

"asdf" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:49:14 +0100, Richard M Willis wrote:

E.g. Totteridge and Whetstone is called simply Totteridge on the actual
station; there is no mention of "and Whetstone" in the station's
name anywhere at that station other than on the system-wide maps.


It says "& Whetstone" at least on the outside of the station building:


It does ?
I shall have to go and see this. It never used to when I lived the
just "Totteridge".

Richard [in SG19]



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[email protected] June 21st 06 12:27 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 

John B wrote:
wrote:

Mark Brader wrote:
Although, the anomalies on the Underground are curious!

Have a look at the following, PLACE / Station name anomalies:

EARLS COURT / Earl's Court
COLLIER'S WOOD / Colliers Wood
ST. JOHN'S WOOD / St. Johns Wood

In the foregoing, all except Earl's Court, the Underground station has
omitted a necessary apostrophe.


Just out of interest, where did you get the capitalised place names
from? Merton Council spells Colliers Wood without an apostrophe. And
Westminster Council spells St John's Wood both ways (as does LUL).


I got it from my Geographer's A to Z.

And, also:

BARONS COURT / Barons Court (not so much an anomaly as simply both
being wrong, with the absence of an apostrophe)
PARSONS GREEN / Parsons Green (ditto)


"To court" is a verb, and barons is a legitimate plural...having
"green" as a verb would be pushing it a bit, though.


John, I think you misunderstand the purpose of the apostrophe. The
Court is the Court of the Earl, hence Earl' Court; likewise the Green
is that of the Parson, hence Parson's Green. They are both nouns.

Whether Baron is singular or plural (Barons), either requires an
apostrophe!

--
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john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

Marc.


[email protected] June 21st 06 12:30 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 

James Farrar wrote:
On 21 Jun 2006 01:34:59 -0700, "
wrote:

Have a look at the following, PLACE / Station name anomalies:

EARLS COURT / Earl's Court
BARONS COURT / Barons Court (not so much an anomaly as simply both
being wrong, with the absence of an apostrophe)


But "Baron's Court Road".

--
James Farrar
. @gmail.com


Well spotted, James!

Marc.


[email protected] June 21st 06 12:35 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 

John Rowland wrote:
John B wrote:
wrote:

BARONS COURT / Barons Court (not so much an anomaly as simply both
being wrong, with the absence of an apostrophe)
PARSONS GREEN / Parsons Green (ditto)


"To court" is a verb, and barons is a legitimate plural...having
"green" as a verb would be pushing it a bit, though.


You can write "persons unknown" or "malice aforethought", so why not
"parsons green"?


Because the green is that of the parson, i.e. it belongs (or
historically did) belong to the parson whose church is on its Western
side, hence a possessive noun, requiring an apostrophe.

"Persons unknown" is not a possessive noun, i.e. the "unknown" is not
the property of the "persons", The word "unknown" in this context is an
adjective, simply describing the type of persons, i.e. "unknown
persons".

I'm not sure what maliceaforethought (apart from being a rather ugly
combination and probably gramatically wrong, but accepted through
common usage) has to do with it!

Marc.


Richard M Willis June 21st 06 12:40 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
wrote in message

John, I think you misunderstand the purpose of the apostrophe. The
Court is the Court of the Earl, hence Earl' Court; likewise the Green
is that of the Parson, hence Parson's Green. They are both nouns.

Whether Baron is singular or plural (Barons), either requires an
apostrophe!


Indeed. However one uses an apostrophe (or doesn't have one), it
must be consistent with the station name being a NOUN PHRASE !

A station can not be called "Everything in the garden is green and lovely"
but it can be called "Saddam's Bomb Shelter".

Richard [in SG19]



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John Rowland June 21st 06 12:59 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
Richard M Willis wrote:

However one uses an apostrophe (or doesn't have one), it
must be consistent with the station name being a NOUN PHRASE !

A station can not be called "Everything in the garden is green and
lovely"


Why not? About five tube stations are named after pubs, and a pub called
"Everything in the garden is green and
lovely" is not too hard to imagine... or is it? Surely some pub names are
not noun phrases?



John B June 21st 06 01:15 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
wrote:
Have a look at the following, PLACE / Station name anomalies:

EARLS COURT / Earl's Court
COLLIER'S WOOD / Colliers Wood
ST. JOHN'S WOOD / St. Johns Wood

In the foregoing, all except Earl's Court, the Underground station has
omitted a necessary apostrophe.


Just out of interest, where did you get the capitalised place names
from? Merton Council spells Colliers Wood without an apostrophe. And
Westminster Council spells St John's Wood both ways (as does LUL).


I got it from my Geographer's A to Z.


Fairy snuff. Just goes to show deep the lack of consensus on how the
names are spelt is (despite the obvious grammatical correctness of
"Collier's Wood" if it were a phrase rather than a name).

And, also:

BARONS COURT / Barons Court (not so much an anomaly as simply both
being wrong, with the absence of an apostrophe)
PARSONS GREEN / Parsons Green (ditto)


"To court" is a verb, and barons is a legitimate plural...having
"green" as a verb would be pushing it a bit, though.


John, I think you misunderstand the purpose of the apostrophe. The
Court is the Court of the Earl, hence Earl' Court; likewise the Green
is that of the Parson, hence Parson's Green. They are both nouns.

Whether Baron is singular or plural (Barons), either requires an
apostrophe!


I agree - was just having fun. "Barons court, and colliers would given
half a chance", etc. The real answer is very much Paul Terry's one
downthread:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....ce1c1e405b9ecf

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org


Larry Lard June 21st 06 01:39 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 

wrote:
John Rowland wrote:
John B wrote:
wrote:

BARONS COURT / Barons Court (not so much an anomaly as simply both
being wrong, with the absence of an apostrophe)
PARSONS GREEN / Parsons Green (ditto)

"To court" is a verb, and barons is a legitimate plural...having
"green" as a verb would be pushing it a bit, though.


You can write "persons unknown" or "malice aforethought", so why not
"parsons green"?


Because the green is that of the parson, i.e. it belongs (or
historically did) belong to the parson whose church is on its Western
side, hence a possessive noun, requiring an apostrophe.


Methinks Mr Rowland might be aware of that.

"Persons unknown" is not a possessive noun, i.e. the "unknown" is not
the property of the "persons", The word "unknown" in this context is an
adjective, simply describing the type of persons, i.e. "unknown
persons".


Indeed it is less than a month since AWAD (
www.wordsmith.org) had
'postpositive adjectives' as its weekly theme, giving us: manque,
redux, redivivus, emeritus, and regnant.

I'm not sure what maliceaforethought (apart from being a rather ugly
combination and probably gramatically wrong, but accepted through
common usage) has to do with it!


It's two words - malice aforethought - another postpositive adjectival
use.

Poetically one can put any adjective one pleases postpositively, eg "It
came upon a midnight clear"

--
Larry Lard
Replies to group please


[email protected] June 21st 06 02:14 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 

Larry Lard wrote:
wrote:
John Rowland wrote:
John B wrote:
wrote:

BARONS COURT / Barons Court (not so much an anomaly as simply both
being wrong, with the absence of an apostrophe)
PARSONS GREEN / Parsons Green (ditto)

"To court" is a verb, and barons is a legitimate plural...having
"green" as a verb would be pushing it a bit, though.

You can write "persons unknown" or "malice aforethought", so why not
"parsons green"?


Because the green is that of the parson, i.e. it belongs (or
historically did) belong to the parson whose church is on its Western
side, hence a possessive noun, requiring an apostrophe.


Methinks Mr Rowland might be aware of that.

"Persons unknown" is not a possessive noun, i.e. the "unknown" is not
the property of the "persons", The word "unknown" in this context is an
adjective, simply describing the type of persons, i.e. "unknown
persons".


Indeed it is less than a month since AWAD (
www.wordsmith.org) had
'postpositive adjectives' as its weekly theme, giving us: manque,
redux, redivivus, emeritus, and regnant.

I'm not sure what maliceaforethought (apart from being a rather ugly
combination and probably gramatically wrong, but accepted through
common usage) has to do with it!


It's two words - malice aforethought - another postpositive adjectival
use.

Poetically one can put any adjective one pleases postpositively, eg "It
came upon a midnight clear"

--
Larry Lard
Replies to group please


Sorry, Larry it was a mistake on my part to make malice aforethought
into one word! As a lawyer, I put forward the excuse that I have only
ever seen the word aforthought preceded by the word malice, and had
subconsciously conjoined them into one word!

Here's another thread, then, for the literary-minded members of this
forum: what other words have you ever seen preceding the word
aforethought?

Love aforethought?
Wonder aforethought?
Spite aforethought?
Awe aforethought?

Answers please.....

Marc.


David Jones June 21st 06 02:40 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
wrote:
Here's another thread, then, for the literary-minded members of this
forum: what other words have you ever seen preceding the word
aforethought?

Love aforethought?
Wonder aforethought?
Spite aforethought?
Awe aforethought?

Answers please.....


try
http://knowledgeaforethought.blogs.com/



Richard M Willis June 21st 06 03:11 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 

"John Rowland" wrote in message

Why not? About five tube stations are named after pubs, and a pub called
"Everything in the garden is green and
lovely" is not too hard to imagine... or is it? Surely some pub names are
not noun phrases?


I've never seen a pub name that was not a noun phrase. If you can find
one, I'd be well interested.

Oh.. Actually, yes, there's The Case Is Altered at Fosdyke.

Richard [in SG19]



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thoss June 21st 06 03:37 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 wrote:

John, I think you misunderstand the purpose of the apostrophe. The Court
is the Court of the Earl, hence Earl' Court; likewise the Green is that
of the Parson, hence Parson's Green. They are both nouns.

Whether Baron is singular or plural (Barons), either requires an
apostrophe!


Yes, but if plural it should be Barons' Court.
--
Thoss

Dave Arquati June 21st 06 03:42 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
Richard M Willis wrote:
"thoss" wrote in message

Have you ever seen a green parson?


Yes. The parson at the place where I used to live dutifully grew
his own veggies, composted the waste therefrom, never used styrofoam
cups, and had no car.


Did you live between Fulham Broadway and Putney Bridge, perchance...?


--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

John B June 21st 06 04:05 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
Richard M Willis wrote:
Why not? About five tube stations are named after pubs, and a pub called
"Everything in the garden is green and
lovely" is not too hard to imagine... or is it? Surely some pub names are
not noun phrases?


I've never seen a pub name that was not a noun phrase. If you can find
one, I'd be well interested.

Oh.. Actually, yes, there's The Case Is Altered at Fosdyke.


In London...
Ain't Nothing But Blues in Soho
The Defectors Weld at Shepherd's Bush
Dicey's The Galway Hooker at Neasden
Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes at Hoxton
Ha! Ha! in various places
Hung, Drawn & Quartered at Tower Hill
Liberty Bounds at Tower Hill
Monkey Chews at Primrose Hill
1802 at West India Quay
Rock The Boat at Waterloo
Tally Ho in Finchley

....not counting single-not-nouns like Imbibe and Lush (well,
technically Lush is a noun, but I doubt that's the sense they're going
for...)

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org


John Rowland June 21st 06 04:17 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
John B wrote:

I've never seen a pub name that was not a noun phrase. If you can
find one, I'd be well interested.


...single-not-nouns like Imbibe and Lush (well,
technically Lush is a noun, but I doubt that's the sense they're going
for...)


I'd say that's exactly the sense they are going for.



John Rowland June 21st 06 04:19 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
Richard M Willis wrote:

I've never seen a pub name that was not a noun phrase. If you can find
one, I'd be well interested.

Oh.. Actually, yes, there's The Case Is Altered at Fosdyke.


In Peep Show, Super Hans wanted to call his pub "Free The Paedos".



Tom Anderson June 21st 06 05:42 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, John B wrote:

John Rowland wrote:

I've never seen a pub name that was not a noun phrase. If you can
find one, I'd be well interested.

...single-not-nouns like Imbibe and Lush (well,
technically Lush is a noun, but I doubt that's the sense they're going
for...)


I'd say that's exactly the sense they are going for.


Not sure about that - it's not exactly a Walkabout-ish "how much can I
drink before I go to hospital" venue. I think they're going for
lush-as-adjective; I doubt its Young And Beautiful target audience even
know "lush" in its 70's-term-for-****head sense.


My housemates (barring one Scot) didn't know that meaning. I don't know if
they're the target audience; they're young, though, so that's at least one
out of two.

tom

--
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than
from books -- Alan Turing

Richard Rundle June 21st 06 06:33 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
"John B" wrote in message
oups.com...
wrote:

Mark Brader wrote:
Although, the anomalies on the Underground are curious!

Have a look at the following, PLACE / Station name anomalies:

EARLS COURT / Earl's Court
COLLIER'S WOOD / Colliers Wood
ST. JOHN'S WOOD / St. Johns Wood

In the foregoing, all except Earl's Court, the Underground station has
omitted a necessary apostrophe.


Just out of interest, where did you get the capitalised place names
from? Merton Council spells Colliers Wood without an apostrophe. And
Westminster Council spells St John's Wood both ways (as does LUL).


The local football team, Colliers Wood United is spelt everywhere without an
apostrophe.

--
Richard



James Farrar June 22nd 06 12:23 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:33:46 +0100, "Richard Rundle"
wrote:

"John B" wrote in message
roups.com...
wrote:

Mark Brader wrote:
Although, the anomalies on the Underground are curious!

Have a look at the following, PLACE / Station name anomalies:

EARLS COURT / Earl's Court
COLLIER'S WOOD / Colliers Wood
ST. JOHN'S WOOD / St. Johns Wood

In the foregoing, all except Earl's Court, the Underground station has
omitted a necessary apostrophe.


Just out of interest, where did you get the capitalised place names
from? Merton Council spells Colliers Wood without an apostrophe. And
Westminster Council spells St John's Wood both ways (as does LUL).


The local football team, Colliers Wood United is spelt everywhere without an
apostrophe.


Speaking of football teams, reminds me of the bizareness with
Borehamwood (or is it Boreham Wood?)

--
James Farrar
. @gmail.com

Richard M Willis June 22nd 06 07:57 AM

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"thoss" wrote in message

Yes, but if plural it should be Barons' Court.


What sort of Baron is it, if he shares a court with other
Barons ? If you, as a Baron, don't have a court of your own,
you're not a real Baron.

Richard [n SG19]



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John Rowland June 22nd 06 10:11 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
Richard M Willis wrote:
"thoss" wrote in message

Yes, but if plural it should be Barons' Court.


What sort of Baron is it, if he shares a court with other
Barons ? If you, as a Baron, don't have a court of your own,
you're not a real Baron.


Maybe it's a tennis court where all the barons play each other... while
being watched by green parsons.



Dave Arquati June 22nd 06 02:27 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
Richard Rundle wrote:
"John B" wrote in message
oups.com...
wrote:

Mark Brader wrote:
Although, the anomalies on the Underground are curious!

Have a look at the following, PLACE / Station name anomalies:

EARLS COURT / Earl's Court
COLLIER'S WOOD / Colliers Wood
ST. JOHN'S WOOD / St. Johns Wood

In the foregoing, all except Earl's Court, the Underground station has
omitted a necessary apostrophe.

Just out of interest, where did you get the capitalised place names
from? Merton Council spells Colliers Wood without an apostrophe. And
Westminster Council spells St John's Wood both ways (as does LUL).


The local football team, Colliers Wood United is spelt everywhere without an
apostrophe.


Maybe the fans haven't really got the hang of apostrophes... See also:
Queens Park Rangers.


--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

Tristán White June 22nd 06 10:15 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
The roundels are wrong.

His name is John, not Johns.

Therefore, the apostrophe HAS to go between the n and the s. Any other
signage is the product of illiterate designers.

JOHN'S

MARTIN'S




In the case of plural nouns, the apostrophe always goes afterwards. So

SPANIARDS' INN
if it refers to more than one Spaniard, or else

SPANIARD'S INN


Where there is some discussion is if the given name already ends with S.

Eg JAMES'S PALACE
or JAMES' PALACE

But never JAMES PALACE



The official line is, certainly as far as the University of London is
concerned where I did my studies and I am a sessional lecturer:

If it's Greek, it's always S'

If it's not, it's up to the individual as long as he or she is
consistent throughout.

Therefore, always Achilles' heel, Eros' statue, Nikolaidis' penalty
shot, Stavros' kebab house, Bacchus' wine, Androcles' lion, but if it's
not Greek, you can say James's Square or James' Square as long as it's
consistent throughout.


Ian Jelf June 22nd 06 10:15 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
In message . com, John
B writes
Richard M Willis wrote:
Why not? About five tube stations are named after pubs, and a pub called
"Everything in the garden is green and
lovely" is not too hard to imagine... or is it? Surely some pub names are
not noun phrases?


I've never seen a pub name that was not a noun phrase. If you can find
one, I'd be well interested.

Oh.. Actually, yes, there's The Case Is Altered at Fosdyke.


In London...
Ain't Nothing But Blues in Soho
The Defectors Weld at Shepherd's Bush
Dicey's The Galway Hooker at Neasden
Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes at Hoxton
Ha! Ha! in various places
Hung, Drawn & Quartered at Tower Hill
Liberty Bounds at Tower Hill
Monkey Chews at Primrose Hill
1802 at West India Quay
Rock The Boat at Waterloo
Tally Ho in Finchley


My favourite (and claimed to be the longest pub name in London) is the
"I Am the Only Running Footman" in Charles Street, Mayfair.
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

Richard J. June 22nd 06 10:20 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 
Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
JMUpton2000 wrote:

Something I wondered as I took a rare journey north of Baker Street
on the Jubilee Line the other day.


The on board scrolling displays and the tube maps say it is spelt St
John's Wood with apostrophe but the platform roundels omit it.


So which is right?


Both, neither who knows.

On Wikipedia the principle that a lot are generally happy with (at
least the last time I'm aware this came up) is to use the current
tube map spelling on the basis that station decorations take a lot
longer to change


But hasn't St John's Wood recently been refurbished? If the platform
roundels are new, were the apostrophes also omitted on the old ones?

and some platforms use multiple stations (e.g.
King's Cross St. Pancras Circle/H&C/Met) so this is the only real
consistent standard.


Not sure what point you're making there. King's Cross St Pancras is
AFAIK the consistent name for all the LU platforms there.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)




[email protected] June 22nd 06 11:43 PM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 

Tristán White wrote:
The roundels are wrong.

His name is John, not Johns.

Therefore, the apostrophe HAS to go between the n and the s. Any other
signage is the product of illiterate designers.

JOHN'S

MARTIN'S




In the case of plural nouns, the apostrophe always goes afterwards. So

SPANIARDS' INN
if it refers to more than one Spaniard, or else

SPANIARD'S INN


Where there is some discussion is if the given name already ends with S.

Eg JAMES'S PALACE
or JAMES' PALACE

But never JAMES PALACE



The official line is, certainly as far as the University of London is
concerned where I did my studies and I am a sessional lecturer:

If it's Greek, it's always S'

If it's not, it's up to the individual as long as he or she is
consistent throughout.

Therefore, always Achilles' heel, Eros' statue, Nikolaidis' penalty
shot, Stavros' kebab house, Bacchus' wine, Androcles' lion, but if it's
not Greek, you can say James's Square or James' Square as long as it's
consistent throughout.


Whilst agreeing with almost everyting you have written, your final
paragraph is somewhat contentious. It would imply that Jesus was Greek!

In her amusing book, "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" Lynn Truss (mistakenly,
I think) states the rule as being that one omits the "s" where the
proper noun is of "ancient" origin, whatever that may mean. But she
then goes on to disprove this rule by quoting "St. Thomas' Hospital" as
being an exception to the rule!

I am always consistent in omitting the final "s", and as a rule that
cannot be faulted.

Marc.


C! June 23rd 06 12:48 AM

St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
 

JMUpton2000 wrote:

Something I wondered as I took a rare journey north of Baker Street on the
Jubilee Line the other day.

The on board scrolling displays and the tube maps say it is spelt St John's
Wood with apostrophe but the platform roundels omit it.


OT - one end of a street "Princes gardens" other end "Prince's
gardens" on the signs



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