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Default OT - the evolving English language

"Dave W" wrote in message
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When I was a lad there was no such thing as a train station; there was
only the station.


Except where I grew up in Portishead, there were the radio, power, fire,
police, ambulance and railway stations, together with the remains of the
WC&P railway station.