Terms or phrases that make your skin crawl
Discussion
Tony2or4 said:
Sticks. said:
Tony2or4 said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Sticks. said:
Train station - it's a railway station.
Correct.'Train station' is different: arguably it is logically correct, a station being a place where something stops and it's the train that's doing the stopping, not the railway.
But what seems to make 'train station' irritating is the fact that a fully-established phrase - 'railway station' - is now being changed for no good reason.
Another good example of this sort of thing is 'I'm good' rather than 'I'm well'. The latter ought to be the annoying one, 'well' being an adverb not an adjective - and yet this illogicality is so deeply-rooted into our language that we don't notice that there's anything wrong; and now that some folk are changing the phrase, we get irritated.
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