Have they changed?
Pupil v Student. Both still used aren’t they? Or is it different in UK now? Pupil is younger and assisted learning, student is older and studying.
Maybe there are a lot more people in higher education now than 50 years ago, so more “students” maybe?
Student becoming the catch all term for someone in education is probably more of American culture bleeding over to the UK than anything else. As far as I know the US will call someone a College Student, or High School Student etc in order to establish age and if the person is in compulsory or further education. Pupil to mean someone in compulsory education is not a common term if at all in the US education system.
I believe the younger British youths are more likely to call themselves students while being referred to as pupils from the older generations although I'm sure Gills58 can offer more insight.
Problems v issues? Dunno. Both used afaik. Maybe issue is a more common term in the workplace.
By definition an issue is "an important topic or problem for debate or discussion"
By definition a problem is "a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome."
The difference is a problem is a more serious form of issue that needs a solution.
The problem (or is it an issue?) is that problems in society that need to be looked into and solved are sometimes downplayed and ignored by being narratively framed as "a controversial issue". This is particularly noticeable in the current culture war. It is noticeable with the more left leaning on here that Labour has an
issue of anti-Semitism in parts of the party but the Tories have a
problem with Islamophobia.
And I thought London was always called a City? London Town in songs and literature maybe. But I’ve always called it a City. That despite Greater London actually being a town but containing 2 cities (City of London and City of Westminster. Or is that wrong an urban myth?).
It was a bit of a myth after King Henry the something granted a number of large towns which all happened to have cathedrals City status and it the association stuck. Of course, the association stuck down the years as there was strong correlation that a lot of cities who got given city status tended to be large towns that
happened to have cathedrals.
Nowadays to be classified officially as a city then you need to apply for the status. And sometimes people forget to fill in paperwork:
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/rochester-was-kents-second-city-546170
As far as I know the City of Rochester is no longer recognised as being a city despite having a cathedral.