I`m sure these have been mentioned before ...

I've always been interested in why word usage changes but didn't know why this particular one should.

I looked up the origin and pupil originally meant 'orphan' - fancy that!

It was also used, mainly for boys as back in the day, girls weren't educated anyway.

So as 'student' just means anyone who studies, I suppose it's more logical now to use that word.

I always thought a pupil was a child who went to school I was certainly given a sheet of paper with ‘pupils uniform ’ on it 70 years ago I also went to a faith school which was a term used then t
I don’t know when railway station became train station but to be honest it is the trains that are in the station not the railways so makes sense
Language is always changing thankfully or else we would still be speaking in Shakespeare’s tongue or worse still Chaucer

Train station used to be just the station. Swim school annoys me if I am honest. Swimming classes ok by me but then I am a fuddy duddy.

but to be honest it is the trains that are in the station not the railways so makes sense

This got me thinking BlueBelle, and I thought about the word 'station', as in stationary, not moving etc.

I had a little investigation with Mr Google and found one meaning of station is 'a regular stopping place'. So the railway station wasn't actually a building, a place you went to to get on a train, but rather a regular stopping place on the railway. Which makes perfect sense of the term 'railway station'.

'Cohort' is the term that irritates me.

What does that have to do with students/pupils? I know it can be used for a group of people, but it always makes me picture them as Roman soldiers.

We haven’t had trains in this area for years, when we did we had the station and the Halt

What about the vet becoming the vets ? I know it's paltry but I always say, I'm taking the cat to " the vet ".

Septimia
'Cohort', besides being the name of a group of Roman soldiers, has the specific meaning of 'group with shared characteristics'. When applied to schoolchildren it's a shorter way of saying 'children in the same year group'.

I still think it sounds daft to be calling 5 year olds “students”.

Can't really see a problem with 'vet' s'. It means the practice belonging to the vet. Same as 'the butcher' s, 'the Baker' s etc.

Hospitals and clinics being referred to as 'medical facilities' and this leads straight to my simmering irritation over patients being referred to as 'clients' or sometimes even (incredibly) 'customers'.

Hiss!Hiss!Hiss!

I hate the word 'coworkers' that seems to have crept in, instead of 'colleagues'.

And let's not start on the onboard train announcements for "station stop"!!

Train station annoys me too. I understood that that came straight across the sea from the USA, just like so many unpleasant things do!

I find the word 'which' has disappeared. On many TV quizzes the host asks, 'what country/town, etc is? ' instead of 'which' and that puzzles me. Have the quiz compilers something against the word?

I’ve heard schoolchildren called “ the learning cohort”!

Date night is my pet hate, usually when couples have a night out.

And for the younger ones 'playdate'

OOh picky picky picky.... If it's a word you do not like then don't use it. Live and let live, I hear/see many things I don't agree with, many on this site but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Why do so many get riled up about things that really don't matter in the grand scheme of things.

Scottish cencus for late 19th century has my Gaunt down as a student,she was 7 years old.We dont call schools faith schools ,we call them Catholic schools and any other kind than the off Jewish Saturday school or Muslim school is rare.The rest are public schools as the Catholic schools ect were all funded by their churches until the 1920's or later in some cases .A public school in Scotland is a state school in the rUK

Jennil23, people’s opinions are what this site is about. If people didn’t make statements, ask advice or opinions there would be no Gransnet, although I suspect pedants would stay clear as the title is an abbreviation of grandmothers’ and granddads‘ networking site. (Hope I got my apostrophes in the right places.)

Riggie - with 'Station stop' I just want to go and punch the person saying it (Who might be the 'train manager' these days. I was happy with a good old-fashioned 'guard', myself)

I think it's to distinguish between train and bus stations - there never used to be such a thing as a bus station.

Ah yes flute, exactly what I was going to say.