I`m sure these have been mentioned before ...

These are not, on the whole, right or wrong, they are just personal preferences. I am in my late 60s, middle England, and as a child, caught the train at our local 'train station'and the last bus from our nearest large town at the 'bus station'. I have no problem with people using the words 'railway' or 'depot' if they prefer.
Pharmacist is the professional qualification, which is obviously different from chemistry. So I think Pharmacy is more accurate (as my chemistry teacher used to point out) although of course, I know you don't mean you are popping into your High Street chemistry lab (or even laboratory)!
And 'faith' schools saves listing all the different faiths so is useful when talking generally.
As long as it's clear, then I like hearing the different way people express themselves - although recently had a laugh with a fellow committee member about a 'hiring' at the Village Hall, when she though I was talking about employing someone. I'd normally use the word 'letting' but the message had used the word 'hiring' so I repeated it!

Yes Chestnut, I find the rising inflection at the end of a sentence really irritating. A few years ago I worked with someone who was much younger and who did this. I asked her when she had lived in Australia as I hadn`t heard it before.

I still say Chemist instead of Pharmacy.
I still say 'in two days' and not 'after two sleeps'.
I still say railway station.
I hate like, like, like every few words.
I hate sentences starting with 'So....'
I find the lifting of voice at the end of a sentence annoying (as if it's a question).
I could go on....

I always use 'railway station'. These days in my area we have a 'bus station'; it used to be the 'bus depot'.
Can't stand the use of 'So' to begin a sentence, and 'also... as well' in the same sentence drives me mad!
I also wish that when referring to death, people would just say 'X has died' instead of 'X has passed'.

I hate the term "hack" to describe a change to something such as changing the use of something like furniture, cleaning product etc. Hate it.

What about starting nearly every sentence with `So`...?
Drives me mad and it is heard everywhere, even by academics, and announcers on Radio Four, who I think should know better.

Our daughter does too Elaine!

There has been a bus station in Edinburgh since I was a child and am now 63! I should know as that is where we got on and off the Penicuik bus! It has changed a bit over the years but still there I think. I still say railway station but train station doesn't bother me.
I also go to the pictures KatyK but DGS1 looks at me as if I am mad! He has been a few times to the cinema!

My son-in-law, who is not from this country is always amused when we say 'we're have a Chinese tonight' (or Indian) of course meaning takeaway.

I went to a Catholic school that was termed a faith school paddyann
I certainly would say train station and bus station we have both but when I was a kid we would say railway station
I definitely say vets
I hate baby shower and play dates yuk sicky yuk
But times move on so thou hath to expecteth differences

Train station annoys me too. We are very old fashioned in this house. We go to the pictures to watch a film - not the cinema to see a movie.

Yes, 'train station' sounds infantile.

I am enjoying this list! I generally go with the flow, but I realise that there are various new usages that quite annoy me and some that are irritatingly grammatically wrong. So it's good to share them here, have a little grumble and then just embrace and smile at (most of) the changes!

So true. Gone are the feminine versions of nouns - so no more 'actress' or 'authoress'. I do not mind this either way. However, I am appalled by the incorrect use of words. 'Myself' is increasingly used as in "Myself and John went to the match" or "me and John" instead of "John and I". This is now accepted even in the hallowed ranks of Parliament and the BBC!!! Must young people use 'like' after every third word they utter or older folk employ "you know" or "know wha' ah mean?"? Then there is the: "I was sat there" or "stood there" instead of: "sitting there" and "standing there". Why do we not strive for excellence in all we do in this great country of ours including in striving to protect and preserve the beautiful language there is, above anyone else's, ours!? In TV interviews, Americans, for instance, come across as fluent and are easily understood. Can we say the same about ourselves?

fluttERBY123.
A benefit more like if you don't know the difference between a bus and a train?

GrumpyGran - I know. It just sounds stupid to me. We never had any problem saying 'year group' when I was teaching.

Ah yes flute, exactly what I was going to say.

I think it's to distinguish between train and bus stations - there never used to be such a thing as a bus station.

Riggie - with 'Station stop' I just want to go and punch the person saying it (Who might be the 'train manager' these days. I was happy with a good old-fashioned 'guard', myself)

Jennil23, people’s opinions are what this site is about. If people didn’t make statements, ask advice or opinions there would be no Gransnet, although I suspect pedants would stay clear as the title is an abbreviation of grandmothers’ and granddads‘ networking site. (Hope I got my apostrophes in the right places.)

Scottish cencus for late 19th century has my Gaunt down as a student,she was 7 years old.We dont call schools faith schools ,we call them Catholic schools and any other kind than the off Jewish Saturday school or Muslim school is rare.The rest are public schools as the Catholic schools ect were all funded by their churches until the 1920's or later in some cases .A public school in Scotland is a state school in the rUK

OOh picky picky picky.... If it's a word you do not like then don't use it. Live and let live, I hear/see many things I don't agree with, many on this site but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Why do so many get riled up about things that really don't matter in the grand scheme of things.

And for the younger ones 'playdate'

Date night is my pet hate, usually when couples have a night out.

I’ve heard schoolchildren called “ the learning cohort”!