Fixed phrase of two or more conventionally joined words

  • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    In the UK it’s always knife and fork, but I’m sure I’ve heard Americans say fork and knife. I may be wrong.

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      17 days ago

      I’m from the US and I say fork and knife more often, but both work.

      Edit: now that I think of it, my mother and grandmother only said “knife and fork.” Maybe it’s slowly becoming uncoupled in American English

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      In the lyrics to the Beatles’ song Piggies, there’s the line “clutching forks and knives”. Is that just an Americanism they picked up?