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Other terms that have no apperent meaning, and you won't find them anywhere handy, are the local vacinity IFR checkpoints. Some pilots and traffic controllers assume that everyone knows where all these points are and don't bother to give a direction in their reports. The bad ones are when they use "old" names for these checkpoints which are not on charts. It is a good idea when flying the pattern often to get familiar with where everything is relative to the airport.
By the way there is no FAR restricting the use of clear English in transmissions. However you must understand all the "hold" and "clearance" terms, there is nothing more guaranteed to upset ATC than you not understading the difference between "hold short", and "position and hold". ATC will not be happy to clarify these terms. I remember doing three or four "touch and goes" while the pilot holding short was being yelled at by ATC "sir, do you understand what the term position and hold means?". Of course ATC could easily have just cleared the poor sap to take off from hold short. The same controller yelled at someone yesterday for not pulling up to the hold short line too.
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