Lost Picture;
I would think that most of the US pilots problems stem from having grown up in an aviation environment where they don't have to worry about standard phraseolgy to be understood. It makes on lazy as to the real phraseology. We controllers here in the US HATE it that the RT is so sloppy in the US and appears to be getting worse all the time. In the UK, anyone who is going to go any distance at all, is going to be talking to someone who is an english speaker as a second language and is going to have to conform to stardard phraseology, and the controllers are going to INSIST on it...
regards
Scott