Talk:Holborn and St Pancras (UK Parliament constituency)

message: In British English, as per Fowler's Modern English Usage and as per Partridge's You Have a Point There (and even as per Readers Digest The Right Words at the Right Time), the rule is that abbreviations only end in a full stop if the last letter of the abbreviation is not the last letter of the word.  "Saint", "Mister", and "Doctor" thus abbreviate to "St", "Mr", and "Dr"; whilst "Professor" and "Captain" abbreviate to "Prof." and "Capt.".  Ironically, it is United States English, as per Wilson Follett's Modern American Usage, that decrees that "Saint" be abbreviated to "St.".  Holborn and St. Pancras is the United States English title for this article.  The British English title, as used in the UK press (Times Guardian), is Holborn and St Pancras. Uncle G 11:05, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
*I see you've now spread your responses to a third location ... anyway, please stop relocating this article and putting misleading edit summaries in place. The article was - correctly - created with "St.". If you really and truly consider that it should be moved - in opposition to the standard practice that has been commented about by others elsewhere - then let us try to find a solution that meets with a wider agreement first before you take this repeated and arbitrary action. --Vamp:Willow 12:26, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
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message: The article on Margot James has been nominated for deletion. Timrollpickering 13:35, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: No reference for the contention that "it is likely to remain safely Labour for the foreseeable future" is provided and I find it very unlikely that one can be provided 87.194.56.53 (talk) 22:23, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely.  Not only weasel-worded but profoundly pessimistic.  One appreciates why someone has said it because the system has to date in no way favoured seeking marginal seats for fear (one assumes) of having MPs cover long swathes of land and both suburban and urban, rich and poor (or similar) but it is not the done thing other than in the British system to make a formal reference to how safe a seat is statistically and/or back the clear verdict of "very safe" up with solid academic reports.- Adam37 Talk 22:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
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