Speaking of words becoming extinct, whatever happened to 'railway station' - suddenly over here it's 'train station'. I even heard a BBC (that one-time bastion of 'proper' English) report that said 'train station'.
Are we just dumbing it down for the morons, is it easier than educating them?
I have a beef with American 'english' as well. Since when 'pled' the past tense of 'plead'????
GG