Dear wwh,

Chargers are attractive in table settings. You see 'em used all the time in junk mail slick magazine photographs--just sittin' there on those Martha Stewart kind of table settings framing in a circular way each place setting.

What I'd like to know is why are chargers called chargers?

And I wonder whether trifle really might have been called trifle because you use a trifle of this and a trifle of that...

Best regards,
WordWonderer