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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">In my experience it is highway signage
which abbreviates. If the town is officially opposed to the short
name then it should have the long name on all the municipal
buildings in the linked changesets.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/14/2019 11:59 AM, Yury Yatsynovich
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<div>Talking about signage: <a
href="https://www.southboroughtown.com/sites/southboroughma/files/styles/custom_masthead_slideshow/public/galleries/home-masthead.jpg"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.southboroughtown.com/sites/southboroughma/files/styles/custom_masthead_slideshow/public/galleries/home-masthead.jpg</a><br>
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Any pictures of signs with "Southboro"?<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 11:25
AM Bill Ricker <<a href="mailto:billn1vux@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at
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<div>Has the town of "Southborough" been recently
renamed to "Southboro"</div>
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class="gmail_default">Legally? No.</div>
<div style="font-family:georgia,serif"
class="gmail_default">De facto? Yes. <br>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif"
class="gmail_default">Much signage uses the informal
form in which the silent letters are also invisible.</div>
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class="gmail_default">If the OSM rule is map the sign,
one could argue that wrong is right. :-/<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br>
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<div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a>??<br>
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