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Originally Posted by Fischbob
To your question, I expect Andy6's post pretty much sums it up. The convention of not abbreviating Saint John aims to reduce confusion with St. John's. Not that it's really helped that much...  |
It’s unique, as far as I know. But it is such an ingrained rule that to use the abbreviation looks and feels wrong. Otherwise the word would rarely be written out in full when referring to place names in English. It’s generally slightly pretentious to do so.