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Old November 26th 15, 12:35 PM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:13:22 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:38:02 +0000
e27002 aurora wrote:
On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:28:52 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:
Whats wrong with "new builds are" other than you don't like it?

Hard to put one's finger on it. It is using the verb "build" as a
noun in an untraditional way. Building is the noun derived from to
build.

"New buildings are" would be OK.

I see your point, but English changes as the years go by.

** compared to some
of the ugly words and constructs added to the language recently this IMO is
fairly innocuous **

One cannot argue with that!
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