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    Default Re: New word for 'raiway station'

    Quote Originally Posted by freezeframe View Post
    If it went out, it also must, at the same time, come in.

    It was a joke... I'm having a hard time with my sense of humor here. Tough crowd!
    So Mr Hegel came into fashion by going out of fashion- he'd be self-transcentally impressed.
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    Default Re: New word for 'raiway station'

    Quote Originally Posted by bhaisahab View Post
    In BrE it's "railway station" or, colloquially, just "the station".
    Train station is also used, though some wince when they hear it (from people like me).
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    Default Re: New word for 'raiway station'

    Quote Originally Posted by Tdol View Post
    Train station is also used, though some wince when they hear it (from people like me).
    Why do you wince?

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    Default Re: New word for 'raiway station'

    Quote Originally Posted by Jasmin165 View Post
    Why do you wince?
    Others wince when they hear Tdol (a speaker of BrE) use an expression that is not BrE.
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    Default Re: New word for 'raiway station'

    Quote Originally Posted by Mary Bright View Post
    1) Is the word 'railway station' quite modern or is there anything newer than that?

    2) If I imply the building of a railway station, would it be more correct to say 'terminal', not 'the station' itself?

    Translating into English at the moment, so thinking over lots of things twice as deep. Thank you.
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    (1) Ever since you posted your question, I have been paying closer

    attention to what I read.

    (2) I think it is accurate to say that most Americans do prefer

    train station.

    (3) Of course, most Americans no longer ride trains. And most

    younger Americans have never ridden one between cities. The closest

    they have come to a "train" is the subway or the light rail (trolleys) in a

    a few American cities. The automobile is the king here.
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    Default Re: New word for 'raiway station'

    If this American was forced to ride a train, I'd probably go to a "train station."
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