In reply to MG:
> (In reply to Franco Cookson) Yes but like spelling and writing style and so on there is, at any given time and in a particular context, a range that is deemed correct. Use language outside this range you come over as possibly ill-educated, or old fashioned, or American, or possibly even from Yorkshire.
Yeh, but I think it's important to state on a thread that is all about 'right' and 'wrong', that it's totally arbitrary. There are current norms, but they only exist due to past changes and will certainly change in the future. On the one hand there needs to be a certain level of protectionism in order for there to be any kind of consensus and thus transference of meaning, but on the other hand you have things like 'train station'. I mean, that is never going to go back. And to pretend to take some kind of learned overview of the situation and condemn the change just shows ignorance.