Talk:St. Mary's County, Maryland

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According to Ben Stein's entry in Wikipedia, he grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, which is in Montgomery County, not St. Mary's County. Which one is correct?

I pretty sure that it is Silver Spring, i recall seeing a tv program about silver spring, and they talked to several people that grew up their over the years, the two most prominent were Ben Stine and Goldie Hawn. --Boothy443 | comhrá 04:05, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

I know for a fact that Ben Stein attended Blair High School, which is in Silver Spring, Maryland. ----Ian 16:42, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

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The info in the infobox about the area is incosistent with the US Census Bureau website: US Census Qblik 20:43, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I just fixed it. 68.40.65.164 04:52, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Named incorrectly

Can someone change "Saint Mary's" to "St. Mary's" in the infobox? I tried to change it, but it took the image of the county's location in the state as well. Sallicio (talk) 02:20, 22 December 2007 (UTC)Sallicio

You should cite a reliable source that the official name uses only the abbreviation. It's comparable to insisting that because most people refer to "Washington, DC", that there is no such thing as "District of Columbia". Tedickey (talk) 15:46, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Regarding redirect - sure: Census Bureau uses abbreviations extensively (as does the Post Office). But there are very few instances that come to mind where a geographic location's official name is an abbreviation. It's simpler for corporations - NCR, ITT Tedickey (talk) 13:35, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

That thing about Washington, DC makes no sense at all to me. That is not an appropriate analogy whatsoever. Besides I just moved to "St. Mary's County". I've been here for two weeks now and have driven past numerous official government signs that say "St. Mary's County" VERBATIM. EXACTLY. Also since when ISN'T "St." an exceedingly common and well used abbreviation for "Saint"??? Is that something that REALLY needs a citation?? If so, please excuse my ignorance. It just seems that from common, official government usage, one will the exact phrase "St. Mary's County" almost exclusively. In fact I'm not sure that I've seen anything official that actually DOES say "Saint Mary's County". I think if anything we need a citation for that!! Frankjcrow (talk) 21:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)