"Gareth's was W7 now W10 Downstairs Computer" wrote
in message ...
What is the difference in meaning between parked and parked up?

Listen and listen up?

Active and proactive? (I knew about active and reactive)

Antennae and antennas?

Are these crass Americans taken up by the literacy-challenged
of this country?

Living languages change over time. Thats why even
you lot now talk about airports instead of airfields,
train stations instead of railway stations and even get
really depraved and use words like OK at times too.