Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Bryn]

Typo. Should have read " ... as a milliner". A reference to mercuric nitrate.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Typo. Should have read " ... as a milliner". A reference to mercuric nitrate.

Aha! As in "This Style 10/6"?

[Serial_Apologist]

"From the get-go"

What was wrong with "from the start", which, for obsessive time-scrimpers, is only one syllable!

[DracoM]

'Curate'.
What DID it mean? What does it mean now?

[ahinton]

'Curate'.
What DID it mean? What does it mean now?

That depends upon the pronunciation, surely? Accent on the first syllable and it's a noun for clergy person and on the second it's a verb about selecting artists, creating programmes et al for festivals, assembling and presenting exhibitions, &c. and derives from the noun "curator"; see http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/de...english/curate

[teamsaint]

here is a shop in Sherborne, that has a curate, apparently.

https://www.facebook.com/gatheredsherborne/info?tab=overview

[Flay]

I wish people would not call a piece of music a "number." Donald Macleod does this repeatedly. There are plenty of other terms to use without resorting to pop music terms.

It makes him sound like a DJ.

[Don Petter]

I wish people would not call a piece of music a "number." Donald Macleod does this repeatedly. There are plenty of other terms to use without resorting to pop music terms.

It makes him sound like a DJ.

This goes with my disgust a week or two ago when, during an afternon concert, a performer was referred to as being 'on the violin'.

[teamsaint]

" Track" when they mean song, usually, or movement, or piece.

[Pabmusic]

That depends upon the pronunciation, surely? Accent on the first syllable and it's a noun for clergy person and on the second it's a verb about selecting artists, creating programmes et al for festivals, assembling and presenting exhibitions, &c. and derives from the noun "curator"; see http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/de...english/curate

'Curator' predates 'curate' as a person who looks after something (a museum or library, perhaps).

[Serial_Apologist]

This goes with my disgust a week or two ago when, during an afternon concert, a performer was referred to as being 'on the violin'.

Whereas "on violin" would have been OK.

[Don Petter]

Whereas "on violin" would have been OK.

Worse, I think (which is perhaps what you implied). Echoes of '... and Fuggy on vibes'.

(It may even have been the shorter phrase.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

'Curate'.
What DID it mean?

In the 14th Century is was a noun applied to a clergyman who had the care (="cure") of a number of souls in a parish. ("men of holi-church, as to prelates and curatis, the which han cure and soverante over othir men for to teche and reule hem") (OED)

What does it mean now?

Anyone who looks after/takes care of something. (And, by making the noun a verb, the act of looking after itself.)

[jean]

I don't think it's a case of making the noun a verb - the nouns CURate (ecclesiastical) and curator (legal) are both medieval forns from the Latin curare; but the verb curATE is a C20 backformation from curator in its art-gallery sense.

[Pabmusic]

I don't think it's a case of making the noun a verb - the nouns CURate (ecclesiastical) and curator (legal) are both medieval forns from the Latin curare; but the verb curATE is a C20 backformation from curator in its art-gallery sense.