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

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?

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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'.

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

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

'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.

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'.

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.

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

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.