Train station

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Monday, February 5, 2001 8:25 am +0800 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> At 12:48 PM +0000 2/5/01, Michael Quinion wrote:
>> A British subscriber to World Wide Words has asked about the
>> increasingly common British usage of 'train station', replacing
>> the older standard British 'railway station', wondering why, if
>> it is as a result of American influence, the change didn't
>> happen earlier than it did...
>
> We can hope it isn't JUST Lynne Murphy's corrupting influence...

You can hope that, but it's my hope to corrupt as many people as I can in
my limited time on this planet.  I hope to have the rest of you saying
"shedule" by the end of the year.

EviLynne



M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

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