Talk:Charger (table setting)

I was at a Pier I store & bought charger plates, which they suggested the name 'charger' was derived from the Roman shield. I can find no evidence of this explanation, however, it does seem plausible that the name may be related to the under-armormant that rested on the horse's back (charger) for knights when going into battle.


 * I too am interested in the etymology of this word. Sounds like it could have been a french word originally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.143.202.168 (talk) 20:22, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

The Middle English chargeour is probably derived from French. Folklore1 (talk) 21:25, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Meaning of charger
I don't recognize this meaning of charger at all. The article description seems to refer to serving practices in upscale US restaurants during the last 20 years, which is a pretty specialised usage. I've always understood a charger to be a large plate, usually oval, most commonly used to carve a roast bird or meat joint at the table. It's certainly not an especially decorated plate - chargers come with large dinner services, and have the same pattern as the other plates. Is this just a difference between British and US usage, or is the article completely wrong? --Ef80 (talk) 18:50, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * On doing some googling, it appears that the article may be more accurate than I thought. The usage of the word seems to have changed during my lifetime and it is now indeed used to describe underplates used at fancy dinner parties. You live and learn. --Ef80 (talk) 19:05, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Agreed. The meaning and usage of the word "charger" has changed to be become far less specific and therefore not, perhaps, toward the better. A chop plate, even twenty years ago, referred specifically and distinctly to a round plate of a diameter larger than either a charger or a dinner plate, used for serving meats which had previously been carved (or chopped). It was identifiable by spoke-ribs or ridges running from a flat center area toward but not reaching the plate rim. It really is vexing. The common and modern usage of the term chop plate is a misuse of the term. WrathofDog (talk) 03:31, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

merging language references
Well, congratulations to the new organization of the Wiki software. This item corresponds to this item in the Dutch wikipedia: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onderbord_(servies)

But editing the language references has become incredibly complicated. Instead of just entering the language code in the source code, I have to create a new account for the wikidata (apparently it doesn't recognize my current wiki account), and then when I try to add the item it says there's a conflict. So apparantly I have to merge the two items in the wikidata, but I don't have time to learn all those new techniques. A quick glance at the page about merging doesn't really teach me how to do that, it looks fairly complicated. So if there's anyone reading this who cares about the interconnectedness of different language versions of the wiki (very useful for translators!) and who does know how to merge: please do. I give up. And it's a real pity. Because I'm sure there are many of these orphan articles (existing in single minority language wikipedia's, without relevant links to the corresponding articles in other languages). But I no longer know how to remedy that on the fly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Franklekens (talk • contribs) 14:22, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Charger plate photo
The photo is incorrect. The knife is in the wrong place. The knife is not part of the other utensils. It is from a different place setting.07:39, 24 September 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.212.240.227 (talk)

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