I always thought that the English ATC thing was pretty Anal. Unfortunately Canada is going the same way. The best controller at my home field (CYYJ) was recently fined $200 because when his tapes were audited he was deemed to use too many nonstandard words.
....Like "please"," thank you", and noted especially was the heinous " have a nice flight".
Yet at the end of the day he pushes more tin than anybody else , has fun and is always polite.
