Short Term - Short Time

17:41 Jan 21, 2016 

@ philgoddard - As a gone-almost-native long-term UK resident, I'd say that 'Take x% off' sounds off to my ears too. That's why I removed it in my suggestion and replaced with 'extra xx% off' which is common and sounds natural.

Nothing technically wrong with 'take off' and 'on top', but they lack the right feel and I'd say would take more fractions of the second to process.

15:25 Jan 21, 2016 

In my experience as a Brit living in the US, "take X% off", in the context of special offers, is an American construction. I'm not sure, but it may sound slightly odd to British ears.

10:44 Jan 21, 2016 

Same in UK English, "short term" is wrong here. Short-term contract: because a contract has either a fixed or indefinite term. Short-term solution: the term is unspecified, we just know the solution will need replacing with a long-term one. However, it's not as much a question of logic, as of general usage.

10:41 Jan 21, 2016 

Like you (though the other way round) I constantly wonder whether things that sound wrong to me are right on the other side of the Atlantic, but here, as Tony says, "term" is wrong in UK English too. You can be elected for a short term, of course, and things can happen in the short term, but here it should quite definitely be "time", or "period".