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Disembark is one of those words that appears only in certain contexts. Any official announcement is going to use disembark or alight preferentially to leave or

• inkyoto 3y ago
  Interestingly enough, in Sydney, one can alight a train or a tram, yet they set off when they get off a bus. But I think set off is on the way out now and won't survive for long.
  • chrismorgan 3y ago
    I hope it would be alight from a train or tram? As for “setting off”, how is that used in a sentence (with what subject and object)? In Victoria, the bus (or driver) could set you down or let you off, is that the structure you’re talking about? “Set off” has long been used in English to describe when you get underway on a journey (“and so we set off on our journey”).
    • jrockway 3y ago
      When I was writing my original comment I first wrote "alight a train", but did some research and found "alight from a train" to be more common. I think it's fine to omit "from", however. We wouldn't be the first people to do it.
    • inkyoto 3y ago
      It is predominantly «alight to…» (to walk to a point of interest, to do something remarkable and similar), with no object. RE: «set off» vs «set down». It is «set down», of course. My brain was passing the gas at the time of typing it up.
• chrismorgan 3y ago
  When I first wrote it, I had “if you’re feeling particularly fancy” there, but as I expanded and adjusted the content, I condensed it to just “even”.