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minus-squareWhelks_chance@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·17 days agoIn the UK it’s always knife and fork, but I’m sure I’ve heard Americans say fork and knife. I may be wrong.
minus-squareidiomaddict@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-217 days agoI’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
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 days agoIn the lyrics to the Beatles’ song Piggies, there’s the line “clutching forks and knives”. Is that just an Americanism they picked up?
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·16 days agoIt is usually “fork and knife” in the US.
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.
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
In the lyrics to the Beatles’ song Piggies, there’s the line “clutching forks and knives”. Is that just an Americanism they picked up?
It is usually “fork and knife” in the US.
Not in my experience
Weird.