Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Sir Velo]

stations that were some way away from the towns they served had Road tagged on, now they tag on Parkway and eg in the case of Bodmin Road we now have Bodmin Parkway.

It can only be a matter of time before the quaint little Irton Road station on the Ravenglass & Eskdale is renamed "Irton Parkway".

[Sir Velo]

Is the word 'parkway' the objection? Out of town stations have more flexible connections (Avignon Centre v Avignon TGV, for example). But I suppose Didcot Hitachi, Bodmin Hitachi might do?

I think the objection here is to the totally unnecessary loss of the historical connection - OK for new stations, but not for perfectly good existing names.

[gurnemanz]

I've always thought of 'Parkway' as a Park & Ride area where you park, then get the train into town.

I've more or less got used to it now but I used to object to Park n Ride since it doesn't accord with British use of the word "ride", meaning to travel by bike or horse.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sheffield Parkway is nothing of the kind. It’s a fast major road linking the city with the M1.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Parkway

[LMcD]

'2 singles, please, to Park Street Parkway - or I mean Parkstone Parkway?'

[MrGongGong]

'2 singles, please, to Park Street Parkway - or I mean Parkstone Parkway?'

Surely it should be

"I'd like a return ticket please"
"Where to?"
"Here, of course"

[Rolmill]

Surely it should be

"I'd like a return ticket please"
"Where to?"
"Here, of course"

I once genuinely heard precisely this exchange at a railway station when on holiday in Yorkshire.

[Serial_Apologist]

I once genuinely heard precisely this exchange at a railway station when on holiday in Yorkshire.

THis reminds me of the satirizing of Transport for London's publicity highlighting tourist hotspots, in which we see Henry VIII at a ticket office, requesting "One return to the Tower of London, please". Underneath, someone has graffitoed - "And a single for the wife"!

[cloughie]

Not so much Parkway as Partway?

No the partway was when they slipped the coach on the ‘Cornish Riviera’ at St Erth to take through passengers to St Ives!

[Serial_Apologist]

Pronouncing Montreux as Montrow!

Kevin Le Gendre was at it on this afternoon's J to Z - as was the post-programme announcer.

Another step in the progressive Americanization of the language.

[LezLee]

Pronouncing Montreux as Montrow!

Kevin Le Gendre was at it on this afternoon's J to Z - as was the post-programme announcer.

Another step in the progressive Americanization of the language.

One of my pet hates too. It goes along with 'Longeray' for 'lingerie'. How could that ever sound right?

[Padraig]

Pronouncing Montreux as Montrow!

Kevin Le Gendre was at it on this afternoon's J to Z - as was the post-programme announcer.

Another step in the progressive Americanization of the language.

I thought you would have been up for the progressives, S_A.

[Maclintick]

Surely it should be

"I'd like a return ticket please"
"Where to?"
"Here, of course"

A close relative of an old Tommy Cooper gag:

"The other day the phone rang. I picked it up & said "Chiswick 5678. Thomas Cooper here. Who's speaking, please".
The voice at the other end replied "You are" "

[LMcD]

One of my pet hates too. It goes along with 'Longeray' for 'lingerie'. How could that ever sound right?

It probably sounds right if you're picturing a long array of ladies' undergarments - possibly while listening to something by Poolonk.

[ardcarp]

It goes along with 'Longeray' for 'lingerie'

The whole household erupts with mirth every time we hear that. Mind you, that's one way language evolves if it's used often enough (as with many mispronounced foreign words).