TIL why (in British English) we don't use a dot after the “St” short form of “Street”.
The “t” in “St” is *not* the second letter of “Street”, but the sixth. So it's not an abbreviation (like “Prof.” for “Professor”, “etc.” in “et cetera”, etc.), it's a contraction (like “Dr” in “Doctor”, “Mr” in “Mister”, “St” in “Saint” and so on) and contractions don't have a dot.
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I assumed it was just a weird English thing, but turns out I found the only language feature that's entirely consistent 
So not for councils to save a teensy bit of money by not having to include the dot on street name signs?
@lnlyisol The councils must be dripping in money! I know of a road sign (not a street sign, but hear me out) and it points down a junction and it reads
“TO THE CHURCH”
and I never fail to stare at the first two words in utter contempt.
Just imagine if every road sign said “To Manchester”, “To Liverpool”, “To the Train Station” and so on. It would be chaos 
Surely they'd also need a very carefully balanced set of matching "FROM THE CHURCH" etc. signs so that they don't end up with entire populations crowded into the church, and unable to return to where they came from! 🤯
An obvious alternative would be to have an infinite number of "TO <>" signs at every possible location, pointing to every other possible location.
This would mean that there would be no actual space for people anywhere, and while the sign makers and installers would become richer than Elon, the councils would save incredible amounts of money by not printing an infinite number of periods on the infinite number of signs.
Andy Alderwick
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