On 19/07/2019 11:15, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , blatha
writes


"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,

There's a difference. When flying was new, a port was where ships sailed
in and out of - and a place of entry and exit to/from the country.
Otherwise it was usually a 'harbour'. By analogy, an 'airport' is
usually large and international - and an 'airfield' isn't. However, a
word rarely used in modern parlance is 'aerodrome'.


Indeed. Blatha is as usual long on bla short on facts.
Aerodrome means a runway or place for aircraft. It is sunonmous with
airfield.

An airport is rather different as you point out.



train stations instead of railway stations

'Train station' drives me mad. However, we seem to accept 'bus station'
(a place where buses stand still for longish periods). You could argue
that rails ALWAYS stand still, no matter where they are.


Why? a station is a place where things are to be found. As in work
staion, play station.

"station (n.)

late 13c., "place which one normally occupies," from Old French stacion,
estacion "site, location; station of the Cross; stop, standstill," from
Latin stationem (nominative statio) "a standing, standing firm; a post,
job, position; military post; a watch, guard, sentinel; anchorage, port"
(related to stare "to stand"), from PIE *steti-, suffixed form of root
*sta- "to stand, make or be firm."

Meaning "each of a number of holy places visited in succession by
pilgrims" is from late 14c., as in Station of the Cross (1550s). Meaning
"fixed uniform distance in surveying" is from 1570s. Sense of "status,
rank" is from c. 1600. Meaning "military post" in English is from c.
1600. The meaning "place where people are stationed for some special
purpose" (as in polling station) is first recorded 1823. Radio station
is from 1912; station break, pause in broadcasting to give the local
station a chance to identify itself, is from 1942.

The meaning "regular stopping place" is first recorded 1797, in
reference to coach routes; applied to railroads 1830. Station-master is
from 1836. Station wagon in the automobile sense is first recorded 1929,
from earlier use for a horse-drawn conveyance that took passengers to
and from railroad stations (1894). Station house "police station" is
attested from 1836. "


and even get
really depraved and use words like OK at times too.

It's better than 'alright' (as a single word). It's also international.

Don't get me going about people who now habitually start sentences with
"So" instead of "Well".

So and so said such and such
Until stopped by the bell.
He asked me what I thought of that...
"I just said : "Well, well, well!"




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