[Talk-us-massachusetts] Town "Southborough" renamed to "Southboro"?

[Wayne Emerson, Jr.]

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.

On 6/14/2019 11:59 AM, Yury Yatsynovich wrote:
> Talking about signage: 
> https://www.southboroughtown.com/sites/southboroughma/files/styles/custom_masthead_slideshow/public/galleries/home-masthead.jpg
> Any pictures of signs with "Southboro"?
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 11:25 AM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com 
> <mailto:billn1vux at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:38 AM Yury Yatsynovich
>     <yury.yatsynovich at gmail.com <mailto:yury.yatsynovich at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Has the town of "Southborough" been recently renamed to
>         "Southboro"
>
>
>     Legally? No.
>     De facto? Yes.
>     Much signage uses the informal form in which the silent letters
>     are also invisible.
>     If the OSM rule is map the sign, one could argue that wrong is
>     right. :-/
>
>     -- 
>     Bill Ricker
>     bill.n1vux at gmail.com <mailto:bill.n1vux at gmail.com>
>     https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
>
>
>
> -- 
> Yury Yatsynovich
>
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