British Charter Airline. SOP was for PM to announce "1green", or "5green" when the commanded and selected flap indication was achieved. Some prat in the training dept decided there was too much "chatter", therefore the call was written out of the script of our play. Guess what, after 2 separate potentially nasty incidents soon after, the call was reinstated.
EU major charter airline. We use to say "1 to go" at the appropriate stage in climb & descent. Simple, 3 syllables in a busy verbal environment did the trick. Then some wally with more authority than experience decided this season's call had to be "One thousand feet to level-off". 8 syllables where 3 formerly sufficed. WHY??!!
Training captains please note, you are NOT a new senior officer in the military, "marking your territory" by changing the way things are done just to impose your (unearned) authority! You are there to change things only where needed as proved by an incident meriting such change or when directed by the xAA who is supervising your operation. The stories of pedantic trainers annoying just about everyone with whom they have operated a 'frame with nitpicking stupidity, then failing to cope with the most mundane events is indicative of a species which should be eliminated by assertive culling by switched-on and alert informed flight management.
But then this latter breed seems to have been supplanted by the army of bean-counters and greasy-pole climbers who now inhabit the office.