Not actually a shower thought, saw an old document that labeled it air-port. I don’t think I would have ever made the connection.

(I’ve found people can be rude about word breakdowns, but I’m posting it anyway. Be better.)

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    4 months ago

    And why isn’t a train station called a rail port?
    Missed opportunity to keep it all tidily labeled similarly, if you ask me.

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      4 months ago

      Train station and bus station. Why isn’t it called boat station and plane station?

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      Funnily enough in Russian the word for train station is Vauxhall… spelt Russian. People say that Russian engineers studying in London mistook the name of a specific underground station - Vauxhall - as the generic word for station and imported it into their language before anyone realised the mistake.