[OSM-talk] Apostrophist corrects punctuation on street signs

[Liz]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, David Lynch wrote:
> Depends on which variant of English you're using. In the USA, the
> formal rule is to put a period after any abbreviation comprised of the
> first and last letter of a word, but US Postal Service fiat is that
> abbreviations can have no punctuation other than hyphens and that has
> generally been copied into most maps.

In Australia the periods and apostrophes are being progressively dropped.