I get irritated when reading travel guides or articles and it is suggested that I should hop onto a train, a boat, a bus or a train. Surely, to hop is to progress using only one leg and one foot. Air travel is hellish enough without having to hop up the steps onto the plane!
And sometimes the 'to' is omitted from 'onto' and we might be exhorted to hop on a bus. Utterly ambiguous, and rather unsettling for the other passengers.
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