WebbPA wrote on Mar 6^th, 2010 at 10:33pm:


Vintage 90s BBC screen!

Probably because that's the name of the BBC department. Is/was NBC Sports a channel? BBC Sport of course, is not.

The modern BBC sport logo is rather plain as seen here but that's because they usually give each sport that they show a different logo. For the olympics they make their own intro, same for F1. Usually they look rather naff (especially for the F1!)

The BBC sport page contains lots of sports. I don't quite know why it's not called 'sports' but they probably have a reason for it. Maybe ask them?


For example, on the BBC F1 intro they show BBC Sport the the name of the sport, which I imagine is just to keep that sport exclusive to what they're showing. By contrast, here is the ITV intro which looks far better, but they also include the Sport and not Sports. The ITV one is for between breaks, BBC doesn't have breaks during it's showings so the intro is longer as it only comes up once.

Craig. wrote on Mar 7^th, 2010 at 10:55am:

More women, more fire and Moby. Gotta love ITV's intro 

In all seriousness, I do like the car flying together in the BBC intro but the rest just seems a bit short on ideas in a way. It's a few cars going down a track then flipping into darkness with quite a lot of blurring going on around it. From a media class point of view, I'd say the ITV one suits the theme better. BBC seems to be going a bit 'PC' as per usual and not showing any of the racers to avoid being biased and there's no stereotype (such as having the ladies everywhere)

That's why I prefer the ITV one. Personal choice I suppose. I hope they improve the BBC one for this year though, but it seems unlikely. Maybe they should hire Top Gear to make an F1 version of their Scirocco adverts 

Per the original question, I think it just narrows down to corruption of the language on both sides of the ocean, and in this case, I don't see a reason to get worked up over it. 

The US:

Sport = one specific activity. (basketball, baseball, golf, etc.)

Sports = multiple athletic or competitive activities.

The UK:

Sport = apparently serves both US definitions, and it's up to the user to figure out based on context?


The US:

Math = The short form of the word mathematics.

The UK:

Maths = Same definition.


The US:

Final (referencing aviation) = i.e. "The aircraft is on final (approach)."
Also recognized by the FAA as the proper wording.

The UK:

Finals = i.e. "The aircraft is on finals (approach)."

I personally can't figure this one out, since I have yet to see an official aviation document for the UK or any European country recognizing the "s" on the end. 


It's not something we can change since people are set in their ways, so I guess we'll just have to get used to it as various regions around the world communicate with each other more and more. 

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I suspect it's a hangover from the old fashioned RAF terminology (born in the days when all approaches were curved, and living still today in a world where circuits are oval shaped) - and over the years they retire and become airline pilots and commercial instructors.

As for any documents saying "finals", I doubt they exist as we're all ICAOed out and standardised now.