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Richard J.[_3_] · January 24th 16, 07:02 PM posted to uk.transport.london

eastender wrote on 24 Jan 2016 at 13:36 ...
On 2016-01-24 13:09:49 +0000, said:

On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 12:33:55 +0000, eastender
wrote:

but only because I couldn't see anything else wrong and I thought it a
bit picky

The debasement of our language by Americans a 'bit picky'?

Do you get concerned that the passenger vehicles on the Underground
are called Cars rather than Carriages?

We've had railway cars since the 19th century (dining cars, Pullman etc.)

The use of alternate instead of alternative on a public sign is not
current British English and hopefully won't be.

My Collins dictionary includes the use of 'alternate' to mean
'alternative' as one of the ten meanings of 'alternate', and it doesn't
mark it as only applying to American English. It was published in 1984.
I think you've missed the boat on this one.

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Richard J.
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