When and in what text was the word "Quality Control" first used?
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Though terms like 'quality engineering' and 'quality assurance' are relatively new, the ideas have existed just as long as the very art of tool manufacture. Simple tools made of rock or bone were subject to familiar modes of failure. They could be fragile, dull where they should be sharp, sharp where they should be dull, etc. When the first specialized craftsmen arose, manufacturing tools for others, the principle of quality control was simple: "let the buyer beware" (caveat emptor).
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who said there was any problem with it?
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job \n1557, in phrase jobbe of worke "piece of work" (contrasted with continuous labor), perhaps a variant of gobbe "mass, lump" (c.1400, see gob). Sense of "work done for pay" first recorded 1660. Slang meaning "specimen, thing, person" is from 1927. The verb is attested from 1670. On the job "hard at work" is from 1882. Jobber "one who does odd jobs" is from 1706. Job lot is from obsolete sense of "cartload, lump," which may also be ult. from gob.
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Quality control means inserting check points at various stages of procurement, production, delivery and provision of services and ensuring that results of check done are within the acceptable limits. This helps and ensures that services rendered and/ or end product delivered to customer is of stated/ prescibed quality as per standards laid down/ acceptable in this regard. At any check point if results of check are below acceptable/ specified values, product is either sent back for rectification/ corrective action and re-tested/ re-checked for compliance or rejected/ seggregated from the lot so that it is not available to customers. The products which do not comply with quality control requirement but still considered usable are some times sold as factory seconds.
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quality control\n\nthe name brands have better quality control, but they are made the same
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HOw about "perfections" or "imperfections"?  Perfectionism.
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Quality control means inserting check points at various stages of procurement, production, delivery and provision of services and ensuring that results of check done are within the acceptable limits. This helps and ensures that services rendered and/ or end product delivered to customer is of stated/ prescibed quality as per standards laid down/ acceptable in this regard. At any check point if results of check are below acceptable/ specified values, product is either sent back for rectification/ corrective action and re-tested/ re-checked for compliance or rejected/ seggregated from the lot so that it is not available to customers. The products which do not comply with quality control requirement but still considered usable are some times sold as factory seconds. This is done to avoid loss which would acrue if product was destroyed for not being in conformity with quality requirement.
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Who made up any word.....;
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Philip of Thesalonica, the Greek poet, in about 20 B.C., mentions the use of writing tools fashioned of lead in disc shaped pieces. The small lead disc used by the Romans to rule guidelines on papyrus may have been responsible for the error that led to identifying our family core as lead.
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Here is a possible answer:\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/6/messages/952.html
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I believe that it came from the magazine Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ), which was one of the first magazines for men's fashions.  It then became the "measuring stick" for men's fashion.
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In my opinion, quality is a phrase used by McDonald's to fool the public.\n\nIf McDonald's really wanted to help the customer, as the world's largest purchaser of beef, they could demand the end of steroid use in cattle which is passed on to the customer doing to them the same thing it does to the cow - make humans mature earlier and gain excessive weight.\n\nThey could also put pressure of the feed companies like Purina to stop using dead animals in their feed which is the source of mad cow disease.\n\nTHAT WOULD BE QUALITY.
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Its origin is Latin, cum grano salis, based on antidote to poison needing a grain of salt to work \n\nTo “take something with a grain of salt” is to view a statement with a skeptical attitude
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Probably 2.\n\nMIND YOUR PS AND QS\n\nA puzzling and quirky idiom\n\nThere has recently been a discussion on the Usenet newsgroup alt.usage.english about this somewhat outdated saying. As so often happens, a series of posters have recounted the explanations they’ve heard about its origins without really advancing the discussion. It would be difficult to reach a conclusion in any case, as the facts to base it on have been lost. All we can do is theorise, which can be fun, but it does tend to generate more heat than light. Here, for what its worth, are the facts so far as I know them.\n\nIts meaning in recent times—and the one I learned as a child in west London nearly 50 years ago—has been “to mind one’s manners”, “to behave properly”. This is a weakened sense to the one it had in the nineteenth century, when it meant, according to Eric Partridge in A Dictionary of Historical Slang: “to be careful, exact, or prudent in behaviour”.\n\nThese are some of the explanations I’ve seen advanced in various places:\n\n    * Advice to a child learning its letters to be careful not to mix up the handwritten lower-case letters p and q.\n    * Similar advice to a printer’s apprentice, for whom the backward-facing metal type letters would be especially confusing.\n    * Jocular, or perhaps deadly serious, advice to a barman not to confuse the letters p and q on the tally slate, on which the letters stood for the pints and quarts consumed “on tick” by the patrons.\n    * An abbreviation of mind your please’s and thank-you’s.\n    * Instructions from a French dancing master to be sure to perform the dance figures pieds and queues accurately.\n    * An admonishment to seamen not to soil their navy pea-jackets with their tarred queues, that is, their pigtails.\n\nIt is possible to put forward objections to all of these. Why should p and q be singled out for attention in handwriting, when similar problems occur with b and d? This comment might be thought to apply with even greater force to the poor printer’s apprentice. The pints and quarts explanation sounds reasonable, provided that men in bars used to drink beer by the quart, as in fact they did. The French dancing-master explanation sounds just too far-fetched to be credible, as does the one about the seamen. The mind your please’s and thank-you’s seems just as unlikely as the others, but is seriously advanced by some dictionaries, the current edition of the Collins English Dictionary among them.\n\nThere are two similar usages recorded:\n\n    * There was once an expression P and Q, often written pee and kew, which was a seventeenth-century colloquial expression for “prime quality”. This later became a dialect expression (the English Dialect Dictionary reports it in Victorian times from Shropshire and Herefordshire). OED2 has a citation from Rowlands’ Knave of Harts of 1612:\n    * “Bring in a quart of Maligo, right true: And looke, you Rogue, that it be Pee and Kew.” Nobody is really sure what either P or Q stood for. To say they’re the initials of “Prime Quality” seems to be folk etymology, because surely that would make “PQ” rather than “P and Q”. Partridge says that the phrase learn your Ps and Qs, was common about 1820, again being advice to children who may be confused about the two letters.\n\nYou may feel the first of these tends to confuse the issue rather than illuminate it, and you may be right. It may just be coincidence. However, the second does tend to support the idea that it relates to children learning their alphabets. If I had to make a choice, I’d plump for the alphabet-learning origin.\n\nWhat we do know is that mind your Ps and Qs was first recorded in 1779 but that it is slowly dying out. To lose it would be a pity, as it is a link to the past and makes a good subject for some quiet speculation and ingenious attempts at explanation. In common with so many words and phrases in English, its origins must remain
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Irregardless\n\nHundreds more at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
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In Lithuanian we have a word for "control" ("kontroliuoti") which has the same indoeuropean origin and the English version. It is often used as in "check" - like passport control, like you said. We also have an original Lithuanian word ("valdyti"), which is more often used in terms of managing something (like in your example - remote control, self-control, control panel). It also has a softer and not so strict connotation as the first word. Quite often, however, we use these words interchangeably (they are synonims in their essence).
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