seems that's an old one by
Pads
on 2009-02-03 17:15:00 UTC
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Been reading Origin of Species and Darwin always says Mr or Dr or whatever. Never puts a full stop after.
Re: Sounds good to me. by
Pads
on 2009-02-01 18:58:00 UTC
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Dropping the . after Mr and Mrs is one of those examples of language evolving, similar to how we're currently in the process of doing away with the hyphen. Saint, however, is only ever shortened in street names (well, and actual saints' names, but who ever writes about those?), so one can't really make quite the same argument for dropping the punctuation.
I'd have to go round all the local pubs too. Within three minutes' walk from here are "Queens", "Nags Head", and "St Johns". And buggered if I'm defacing the latter, because it's my local.