Brighton le Sands has TWO pieces of punctuation in it Two hyphens Apostrophes are punctuation too What about O Connell near Bathurst More punctuation I m sure there s a suburb on the Sunshine Coast that has a D something like D Amato Or what about the D Entrecasteaux island group or the D entrecasteaux National Park in WA But of course that s interstate out of the clutches of the Geographical Names Board They seem to have been successful in getting rid of the full stops after St but saying no punctuation is ever appropriate in place names just doesn t bear up under scrutiny Rather than remove the punctuation and trying to make something incorrect the standard the Names Baord should ve set an example and standardised correct English punctuation and spelling Sometimes they even take the posessive apostrophe out without taking out the possesive s like Paddys River near Goulburn which is just stupid If they were so worried about people spelling it wrong why would they then go and standardise a version which isn t correct at any time ever I don t think standards should be lowered just because a certain percentage of people don t know how to get it right People who muck up punctuation will also muck up the spelling because the same education or lack thereof applies to understanding of all text not just the dots and dashes