To: Leapfrog
Silly grammar question: Why is it written Mount St. Helens, not Mt. St. Helens or Mount Saint Helens? It seems to me they should be consistent one way or the other.
5 posted on
09/30/2004 7:59:34 AM PDT by
Reeses
To: Reeses
Darned if I know. Too long one way, too may abreviations in a row the other?
6 posted on
09/30/2004 8:01:12 AM PDT by
null and void
(Bring the War on Terror home! Vote for Kerry...)
To: Reeses
"Saint" or "Sainte" is almost always abbreviated. (I don't know any exceptions.) Titles are funny that way. Were a mountain named for John O'Connor after he became canonized and knighted you might have Mount St. John Cardinal O'Connor, Bart. (Mount Sinjin?)
7 posted on
09/30/2004 8:06:49 AM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Reeses
I think it started when Klinton thought that St. Helens was an intern
15 posted on
09/30/2004 8:56:43 AM PDT by
trebb
(Ain't God good . . .)
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