Jose wrote:
Right, so adding "full length to "cleared to land" adds nothing but
two unnecessary words.

The same can be said of any explicit statement that could be stated
implicitly. One person's "unnecessary words" are another person's
"useful redundancy".

To whit, when entering Class D airspace, the controllers here typically
go into this long-winded tirade about "clearances" and "over the field"
and "watch for other traffic", when all they have to do is use my full
callsign to give me permission to enter the airspace.

Don't ask me why all that unnecessary verbiage is, erm, necessary. :P

TheSmokingGnu