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      <pre>Many church names in Australia have names containing 'Saint' followed by a persons name these are are commonly abbreviated 'St'.</pre>
      <pre>I expand these out to Saint. I think that is correct in the English language. </pre>
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I don't think the alt_name should carry the abbreviation, nor an expanded version. </pre>
      <pre>
For St Leonards .. there are two Saint Leonards </pre>
      <pre>Saint Leonard of Port Maurice 1676-1751</pre>
      <pre>Saint Leonard of Noblac -559</pre>
      <pre>
Saint Peter is well known ... well one of them at least. :) </pre>
      <pre>
---------------- Following a UK example? </pre>
      <pre>Having a bet both ways ? In the UK a search on St Leonard lead me to 

Node: Drayton Saint Leonard (21268304) - Saint - centre of the place.</pre>
      <pre>Relation: Drayton St. Leonard (1864544)- St. - parish boundary.

Yes these are both the same area. 
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So .. for the suburbs/towns/villages at least it can be done both ways .. without using alt_name.  </pre>
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      On 29/06/18 17:31, Michael wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The
            usage of Saint “Name” is wrong in the English language and
            should not be used.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The
            only time you use that notation is when you write about the
            person specifically.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Also
            in French Saint “Name” is acceptable just to be confusing,
            but this about Australian names and they should all be
            English (Unlike Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What
            we might have to consider is that in indexing you use S<b>a</b>int
            not S<b>t</b>, do we need to have it explicitly in the
            tagging (ie alt_name) or is this the responsibility of the
            renderer to work out?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
            lang="EN-US"> Nemanja Bračko <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:brackone@gmail.com"><brackone@gmail.com></a> <br>
            <b>Sent:</b> Friday, 29 June 2018 5:02 PM<br>
            <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:philip@philipmallis.com">philip@philipmallis.com</a><br>
            <b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:talk-au@openstreetmap.org">talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
            <b>Subject:</b> Re: [talk-au] Road name abbreviation
            exception?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">​​</span><span
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                style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Hi!<br>
                The easiest way is to add alt_name with abbreviation.
                Also if community agrees, it is possible to put
                abbreviation in the name tag (because of rendering name
                on the map), but use "Saint" as alt_name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Best
                Regrads,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Nemanja<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 5:18 AM Philip
              Mallis <<a href="mailto:philip@philipmallis.com"
                moz-do-not-send="true">philip@philipmallis.com</a>>
              wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">It depends on the context. St Kilda
                  in Melbourne is another example where that is used
                  instead of 'Saint'.<br>
                  <br>
                  Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  On 29 Jun 2018, at 10:28, cleary <<a
                    href="mailto:osm@97k.com" target="_blank"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">osm@97k.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                        style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In
                        New South Wales, the Geographic Names Board
                        register shows the Sydney suburb Mount Druitt
                        (no abbreviation) while the adjacent suburb is
                        St Marys (always St and never Saint). The same
                        applies to places named St Peters and St
                        Leonards. Using the word "Saint" would not
                        accord with the places' official names. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                        style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I
                        understand there is a tendency to remove
                        sectarian references so that "St" can be
                        pronounced as the speaker wishes and is not
                        necessarily "Saint".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, at 5:21
                      AM, Nathan Ginther (Insight Global Inc) wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                          class="m-7028822469871276904size">Hello all,
                          our team has come into an interesting
                          situation regarding road name abbreviations,
                          we know that as a policy we spell out any and
                          all abbreviations on the OSM map, however it
                          looks like we may have run into an exception
                          in the use of “Saint vs St” (<a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Invalid_Abbreviation_Expansion"
                            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Invalid_Abbreviation_Expansion</a>). 
                          It looks like the use of “St” instead of
                          spelling out “Saint” is accepted within the
                          mapping community, and might be the proper
                          English spelling, but we want to get the
                          response from the community as what is the
                          accepted/preferred use when naming roads
                          specifically, should we be spelling out Saint,
                          or using St?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><u>_______________________________________________</u><o:p></o:p></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal">Talk-au mailing list<o:p></o:p></p>
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                          href="mailto:Talk-au@openstreetmap.org"
                          target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                            style="color:#0563C1">Talk-au@openstreetmap.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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                          href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au"
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                            style="color:#0563C1">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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                    Talk-au mailing list<br>
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                      href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au"
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              Talk-au mailing list<br>
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                moz-do-not-send="true">Talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
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