"Railway" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Poster:       Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at SUSSEX.AC.UK>
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> One of the things that gives away AmE speakers in Britain
> (not that there aren't a lot of things that give us away), is
> the use of 'train station'
> rather than 'railway station', which is what's said in BrE.
> The increased use of 'train station' in BrE is one of those
> things (one of those many, many, many things) that some
> (particularly older) BrE speakers like to complain about to me.
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Another American usage:

"One toke over the line sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sittin' downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line"

Lyrics from "One Toke over the Line" by Brewer and Shipley

(And an ADS-L connection:  Tom Shipley apparently is a colleague of
Gerald Cohen's at U-MO Rolla -- wikipedia says "He is manager of
distance learning, video, audio, and other special video
productions for the university.")
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