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railman Fri 19-Oct-12 18:48:17

I know - it doesn't really matter - and given my nom de pen I should be more sympathetic.

What on earth is a "Train Station" - these must have materialised in the last decade, along with cup cakes, etc., - they are after all railway stations, and derived from - hey believe it or not, stations on the railway!!

I've heard this repeated so many times on the BBC - and no doubt other TV and radio broadcasters - but it is just plain wrong.

I'm afraid I didn't know whether to include my little rant in pedants corner or not.

Mind you I can't wait for someone to say they're going to travel by train on the train way! Then we can all arrive into a train station, and go to the kiosk and ask if we can get a newspaper, coffee, bacon barm, etc.

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railman Tue 23-Oct-12 12:07:30

And another thing that can get under my skin is the current propensity for turning nouns and adjectives into verbs:

"Please exit by the main door...."

Editorialize, verbalize.....etc., etc.

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railman Tue 23-Oct-12 12:11:17

I like that gracesmum - I wonder how a "work station" should be described in standard English?

I am assuming here that on your desk is a computer with a screen - what happens if you place a laptop, Mac or iPad on the same desk - does it then have a different name.

You can't beat the world of ICT for inventing non-descriptions of devices and gadgets.

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