Re: Disgusted! Tonbridge Wells.
On Oct 29, 8:12 pm, Brian Dominic wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:08:03 -0000, "Mike & Krystyna Wooding" <mikeand
> kryst...@googlemail.com> finished tucking into their plate of fish,
> chips and mushy peas. Wiping their mouths, they swigged the last of
> their cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote::
>
> >A slightly disagree with you here Tony (now that'll make a change:->) not
> >necessarily with this instance, but with the apparent downgrading, not
> >language evolution, of English in general. I get overly annoyed with the
> >misuse of 'the' and 'to', 'me' and 'I', especially in the news media, who
> >once used to be an icon of the correct usage of the English language.
>
> The one hat REALLY gets up my nose is "train station" - what on earth
> is wrong with "railway station"?
>
> Brian L Dominic
>
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Well, we have bus stations, not road stations..
Tone
date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:15:45 -0700 (PDT)
author: Tony Haynes
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