Wouldn't it have been better to say stop rather than terminate?
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- 19-Dec-2003, 09:49 #1
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This train.. 'This train will now terminate here.' This was the announcement given on a London Underground train I was travelling on. The train was supposed to go beyond the place where it stopped....
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- 19-Dec-2003, 10:39 #2
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- 19-Dec-2003, 17:35 #3
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They use 'terminate' for the end of the journey and 'stop' for pauses at stations along the way.
- 19-Dec-2003, 21:07 #4
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I guess terminate in that sense comes from terminal (train station). I don't think the word is used that way in AE.
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- 21-Dec-2003, 23:51 #5
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We use or used 'terminus' for bus station.
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