[Talk-ca] Saints in street names in Ontario

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 15 17:17:18 UTC 2019


On 15/03/2019 16:58, Martin Chalifoux via Talk-ca wrote:
> The word is definitely Saint. St is a contraction and neither proper 
> English or French.

I can't comment about Canadian English, but "St" in a placename in 
British English is perfectly OK - St Albans is correct; "Saint Albans" 
is not.

Not that this has any relevant to Canadian placenames of course 
(especially those with a French derivation - "Saint-Denis" is of course 
correct there).

Best Regards,

Andy





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