Perhaps I'm [turning into] a fuddy-duddy. I increasingly notice how people have started to refer to seats on buses and trains - and in cinemas - as "chairs". Perhaps we don't need two words - but aren't chairs the ones with legs?
I was reminded of this when someone on a Barking & Gospel Oak Line train said that it went through tunnels - tubular holes in the ground I thought. Talking on her mobile phone, after we went in cutting under a road bridge, she said to the person on the other end that we'd just been through a tunnel. What made it more odd was that she asked the person next to her to verify that the line went through tunnels - and she did.
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