My Continued Rebellion

In my last blog entry, I talked about launching a campaign to eradicate that annoying phrase: “go ahead and.” Now I must expand my rebellion against another new and pointless quirk of the English language. I was in my kitchen this morning, brewing coffee from a “pre-measured” pouch. I paused to think: What is the difference between measured and pre-measured? And then I made a sandwich out of “pre-sliced” cheese. What on earth comes before slicing? I wanted to bake some french fries to go with the sandwich, and the recipe called for “pre-heating” the oven. Isn’t that just heating the oven?