WHY do you refer to Royal Air Force establishments as “bases”
in your story about the threat to the future of RAF Leeming (Echo, Oct 20)? The Royal Navy has bases, but the RAF has stations. Is it all part of the increasing use of American English?
Peter Elliott, Eaglescliffe, near Stockton.
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