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date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:15:45 -0700 (PDT),    group: uk.rec.waterways        back       
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
>
> Web Site:http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk
>
> Newsgroup readers should note that the reply-to address is NOT read:
> To email me, please send to brian(dot)dominic(at)tiscali(dot)co(dot)uk

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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