Have to say that I'm on the side that this is the UK being bloody minded again.
It is a only a small world, why do we insist on an island mentality and refuse to join the rest of the party?
RAS, RIS, etc. UK specific.
After the landing... Instead of Behind... behind.
Damp instead of moist.
This terrible and clumsy ILS phraseology...
Keep this up and we'll slip even further behind. For some reason there is an urban myth that UK ATC is so great. Methinks that definitely won't be the case if we keep up our parochial mentality.
Ok, rant over... where's my beer?