Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[LMcD]

M & S are going to 're-engineer' their food range. Does this mean their food will contain more nuts? And will it be sponsored by Usain Bolt?

[Stanfordian]

M & S are going to 're-engineer' their food range. Does this mean their food will contain more nuts? And will it be sponsored by Usain Bolt?

What's not to like!

[cloughie]

M & S are going to 're-engineer' their food range. Does this mean their food will contain more nuts? And will it be sponsored by Usain Bolt?

A term which has come into too common parlance and I don’t particularly like is reimagine. Along with reinvented it conjours up the idea that someone has run out of ideas so jump on the latest bandwagon as though it was an original idea.

[Padraig]

...along with reinvented it conjures up the idea that someone has run out of ideas so jump on the latest bandwagon as though it was an original idea.

...so that's what reinventing the wheel means?

[cloughie]

...so that's what reinventing the wheel means?

That’s the boy! ...and sometimes without a band!

[french frank]

Along with reinvented it conjours up the idea that someone has run out of ideas so jump on the latest bandwagon as though it was an original idea.

And the BBC's 'reversioned' when they fiddled about with the old R3 messageboards … Oh, what days those were! Mark suggested that we had now outlasted the BBC's boards: we're certainly quite close to it (they've wiped them all so can't check).

[oddoneout]

M & S are going to 're-engineer' their food range. Does this mean their food will contain more nuts? And will it be sponsored by Usain Bolt?

I find it rather disconcerting to consider that would imply it was 'engineered' to begin with....not the first term that springs to mind in the context of food even if so much of what is on the shelves is the result of industrial processes these days.

[oddoneout]

A term which has come into too common parlance and I don’t particularly like is reimagine. Along with reinvented it conjours up the idea that someone has run out of ideas so jump on the latest bandwagon as though it was an original idea.

Although neither term is exactly new according to Merriam-Webster. Perhaps the frenzied drive for 'new', 'improved, 'updated' etc which is so much a feature of life these days is the cause of increased use of 'reimagine'?

[Stanfordian]

M & S are going to 're-engineer' their food range. Does this mean their food will contain more nuts? And will it be sponsored by Usain Bolt?

I first saw the term 'Reengineering I should think over 20 years ago with the original publication of the book 'Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution'. It was a real buzzword and we used it a lot in our organisation back then.

[Lat-Literal]

Although neither term is exactly new according to Merriam-Webster. Perhaps the frenzied drive for 'new', 'improved, 'updated' etc which is so much a feature of life these days is the cause of increased use of 'reimagine'?

Whenever I have known a reasonably good food product beforehand, I have found that the new and improved version has been worse.

Whenever I haven't known a food product beforehand, I have never bought the new and improved version because it clearly wasn't any good in the first place.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Whenever I have known a reasonably good food product beforehand, I have found that the new and improved version has been worse.

- I think that one of my first contributions to this very Thread was to nominate "New, Improved Recipe" as one of the phrases that set my teeth on edge.

And, for crying out loud, if there's one thing that M&S doesn't need to tamper with, it's their food!!!

[Lat-Literal]

- I think that one of my first contributions to this very Thread was to nominate "New, Improved Recipe" as one of the phrases that set my teeth on edge.

And, for crying out loud, if there's one thing that M&S doesn't need to tamper with, it's their food!!!

Yes - that is true. And their name. When they were successful, they were Marks and Spencer. See also the sly and unnecessary introduction by Waitrose of "and Partners" which has prompted poor sales at John Lewis. When they become "W & P", they will immediately go down the pan. It isn't as easy to familiarise the names of the new breed. Frequently, it was Marks and Sparks - even in a Bowie song - and cockneys could peer up at the windows of "Waitroses". "Woolies" has gone. BHS did too. Once they ceased to be British Home Stores.

[teamsaint]

If you feel the urge to go to C and A, you can find them in Germany.

Probably not worth going specially, though......

[Lat-Literal]

If you feel the urge to go to C and A, you can find them in Germany.

Probably not worth going specially, though......

Ah, there your are then...…..yet another example!

And they were always C and A which merely accentuated their demise here.

[teamsaint]

Ah, there your are then...…..yet another example!

And they were always C and A which merely accentuated their demise here.

Good for cheap skiing gear though.