Karen recently wrote about some hazards of flying. She ended with a PS:
"P.S. I wish that as the plane is landing, the flight attendants
wouldn’t say “we’re making our final approach”. It sounds so… well…
final."
My fears tend to be raised on hearing another common final approach phrase in the USA:
"We will be landing momentarily"
Of course, the original, everyone-in-the-world-except-the-USA meaning of "momentarily" is "for a moment", and not the newer US meaning of "in a moment". Whenever I hear the cabin crew tell me about such landing intentions, I have a mental picture of the plane bouncing off the runway before climbing off to its next destination.
Point to the rest of the world.
UK 3, USA 2
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