Almost EVERYONE now says 'train' station, and will justify it by telling you that we always say 'bus' station.
However, English frequently bends (and breaks) the rules, if it sounds better when you do so. Perhaps the most frequent example of this is not using the 'correct' pronoun before and after the verb 'to be' (both should be subject). I can't remember the last time that I said "It is I" (although I guess you might wince a little with "It is me who is coming").
You could have guessed - nearly all nouns ending in 'x' are in fact Latin and take the -ces plural. Appendix -> appendices - Codex = > Codices. etc.
Well its probably wrong.
Unix was good. Type in 'make love' and it would say: I don't know how to make love
Do they?
I don't think I do. But I haven't been on a train for years
If I can find one, its never going where I want to go.
In general yes, until usage is SO common that they change their passports so to speak
Never seen that myself. Likely more draws than drawers tho.
But that's snowflake generation who were dumped in front of Sesame Street after school. "Railway Station" is correct English and if you look at the history of when the various forms of transport were introduced you can see why. Bus stations were introduced a long time after what were originally just called stations so were defined as "Bus" stations to distinguish them.
My Little Oxford Dictionary (1966) says 2 words but my Penguin Dictionary (1977) says 1 word. So yer pays yer money and makes yer choice! :)
Apart from some airport terminal trains, the last real one I can remember using was in Germany, to get from the town where I was staying to Frankfurt Airport, and back, in 1980. It ran exactly on time every time, you could literally set your watch by it. The last time I used one in the UK, well....
Artic and antartic.
Yes, these are quite irritating.
The railway or train station is usually more akin to a bus /stop/.
My mum thought an artic was a frozen food lorry.
Am 06/01/2023 um 16:34 schrieb Ian Jackson:
Let's just call it Bahnhof, as you do.
Seriously, train and railway are the same concept. In UK, the train is the only thing that runs on the railways; trams run on tramways.
But in Germany you have the Bahnhof, where the same tracks can be used for standard (long haul) trains (Zug), the metro (U-Bahn) and the commuter rail (S-Bahn).
Apologies for using foreign languages.
Last time I used em they are on time, but frankly, unless you live in a major town and your destination is another major town, they are useless. And they always were.
Back in the 1950s it used to take all day to get from Surrey to firstly, Swansea, then after my grandparents retired, Rural Devon. In the late 19600s, we acquired a car which even at an average speed of
35mph, took half the time, door to door.Later on motorways and better cars almost halved it again.
Friend of mine based in Cambridge had a car fail him in scotland, he ended up taxi-train-plane-train which was cheaper than trains all the way, and cheaper.
Railways should be made into freight services.
They are not suitable for people.
Is that Iceland lorries?
It is.
Bus stations usually have stands, not stops. Presumably because, in most cases, it would make a mess if they didn't stop there. (I know some bus stations have through stops.)
At least we still have railway *platforms* not tracks as in the US.
Maybe the Yanks are used to stations that consist of a hut and a cactus in the desert, where you have to climb up into the train.
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