Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[kernelbogey]

'Executive' was fashionable for a long time - e.g. 'Development of Executive Homes' - but seems to have waned. I'm pretty sure I owned an Executive Briefcase for many years, though, as far as I know, it was never employed to fell purpose

Of course it was in effect a classist term: sort of 'upwardly mobile' (in a nice way).

[kernelbogey]

'...what is...'

As in '...on what is Saint Cecilia's Day' - Petroc closing Breakfast.

Redundant and otiose.

[LMcD]

'...what is...'

As in '...on what is Saint Cecilia's Day' - Petroc closing Breakfast.

Redundant and otiose.

Petroc hasn't had the best of mornings, has he?

[oddoneout]

Petroc hasn't had the best of mornings, has he?

Indeed. A cross between pick'n'mix, multiple choice and quiz question. "The last few pieces of music were by these three composers - Brahms, Parry, Stanford - can you correctly link the piece with the composer?"
At least the forthcoming performances of the Parry/Stanford 'The Travelling Companion'(take your pick) got plenty of publicity; let's hope would-be concert-goers check the details of dates and venues before heading out.
Perhaps there was some sort of mishap in the studio with missing papers/online info, or not enough coffee?

[LeMartinPecheur]

'Executive' was fashionable for a long time - e.g. 'Development of Executive Homes' - but seems to have waned. I'm pretty sure I owned an Executive Briefcase for many years, though, as far as I know, it was never employed to fell purpose

In the 70s I saw a pub menu featuring an 'Executive Ploughmans' (the missing apostrophe probably correct too).

Don't think I bought one...

[french frank]

'Executive' was fashionable for a long time - e.g. 'Development of Executive Homes' - but seems to have waned.

I was never quite clear what the special meaning was of an 'Executive Summary'. I copied what people did with all those numbered paragraphs and sub-paragraphs and sub-sub-paragraphs and called them 'Summary'.

I'm pretty sure I owned an Executive Briefcase for many years, though, as far as I know, it was never employed to fell purpose

I had a smart attaché case. It was leather and was so slim you couldn't get much in it. Just flat papers, no lunch box.

[gurnemanz]

In the 70s I saw a pub menu featuring an 'Executive Ploughmans' (the missing apostrophe probably correct too).

Don't think I bought one...

One memorable Ploughmans I had about 25 years ago (many are not memorable) included pickled walnuts, which are possibly an executive notch up market from Branston's, although it was not advertised as such. I even remember where I consumed it - a pub in Wallingford.

[Richard Tarleton]

Talking of menus, "XXXX three ways" is ubiquitous these days. It's always three, never two or four. It's clearly driven by the "three", not some imperative driven by the food.

I can remember my very first ploughman's, largely because it was in a pub by the Itchen where you could sit and watch the water voles going about their business. Just a simple, warm white cob loaf, butter, huge hunk of cheese and pickled onions. Perfect apart from the beer, which was Watney's Red Barrel - CAMRA was founded the following year.

[vinteuil]

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... as for the name 'Ploughman's Lunch' - it was apparently a 1950s invention of the J Walter Thomson marketing team at their Cheese Bureau (why didn't they call that organisation 'The Cheese Board' ? - an opportunity lost there, I think. Perhaps I shd have had a career in advertising after all... ) -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploughman%27s_lunch

A triumph of the marketing people, that it has become so accepted that most people think it's a time-out-of-mind 'authentic' term.

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[Stanfordian]

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... as for the name 'Ploughman's Lunch' - it was apparently a 1950s invention of the J Walter Thomson marketing team at their Cheese Bureau (why didn't they call that organisation 'The Cheese Board' ? - an opportunity lost there, I think. Perhaps I shd have had a career in advertising after all... ) -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploughman%27s_lunch

A triumph of the marketing people, that it has become so accepted that most people think it's a time-out-of-mind 'authentic' term.

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From back in the day, no doubt

[teamsaint]

Anybody ever come across a menu offering a " Cricketer's Lunch" ?

Is this a thing ? Saw and indeed had it once, probably 40 years ago, and it was a Ploughman's plus soup.

Not marketed by the MCC though, AFAIK.

[french frank]

a pub menu featuring an 'Executive Ploughmans' (the missing apostrophe probably correct too).

Otherwise it should have been Executive Ploughmen.

[Barbirollians]

"Renter"

No ! the word is tenant

[Bryn]

"Renter"

No ! the word is tenant

No. A tenant must occupy. A renter need not.

[french frank]

No. A tenant must occupy. A renter need not.

So, it depends how it's being used?