This. I’m mostly left-handed.
Mostly.
I write with my left hand, but I use scissors in my right hand. Tennis goes in left hand. Computer mouse? Right hand. Self-abuse? Left hand.
If I’m using a knife and fork at the same time, the fork is in my left hand, and the knife is in my right hand. I’m pretty sure I would make a terrible mess of things if I had the fork in my right hand and the knife in my left.
Only if you’re a Yankee. Real Americans of Italian descent (and presumably Real Italians) don’t need a silly spoon. That’s like having training wheels on your bike when you’ve been riding bicycles for ten years.
I believe American pancakes are rather thicker than English ones, the former taking after Dutch pancakes. English pancakes are wafer-thin and you put jam or whatever inside and roll them up. Or just serve rolled up with lemon juice and sugar. Use of a knife to cut is optional: you should be able to cut the rolled-up pancake with your fork, but if it’s too much effort, you use a knife.
As for which utensil goes in which hand, with a knife and fork the fork is in the left hand and the knife in the right; otherwise the utensil with the food on it goes in the left hand.
Side of fork, although I’m Euro-style for just about everything else.
If you really want to freak the waitress and everybody else in the restaurant out, bring chopsticks! Pancakes are easy enough to cut with two chopsticks, and the looks you get are priceless.
Either those are some really good pancakes or you had lots of people over for breakfast & only made one… 
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I’ve never understood the spoon-with-spaghetti thing. Just the thought of scraping the tines of the fork against the spoon sets my teeth on edge.
(You’re eating with a fork with one hand & fending people away from your plate with the knife?)
Ah, okay. That was too many steps away for me to catch.
More butter? Syrup? 
I use European-style when eating with knife and fork, like for Snickers bars.
As long as you eat with your mouth shut, I don’t care. Oh, and keep your elbows to yourself. Oh, and hold the utensils like a regular grown up human, not in a fist like a toddler. But mostly, keep your mouth shut.
Because the fork feels more natural to me in the non dominant hand, to be honest. Perhaps it’s because that’s how I learned it so it just seems easy, but I feel the fine motor control comes in controlling the knife, not the fork, hence I prefer the knife in my right hand and the fork, which doesn’t have to do anything but spear the food, in my non-dominant hand. Doing it the other way around feels as awkward as trying to write with my left hand.
Thank goodness this was about knives and forks. I thought it was going to be about [url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/04/04/sacred-heart-university-student-dies-after-choking-at-pancake-eating-contest/100014116/] this cautionary tale of the dangers of eating pancakes too fast. (Warning: it’s about a college student dying from eating pancakes).
Trying better link.
Me too… And when I do need to cut with a knife, I keep the knife in my right hand and spear gobbets of food with the fork in my left hand.
My mama tried to learn me proper manners, and it didn’t work.
What, no-one wads up their johnny cakes into a tube and gorges it down like a cormorant with a fish, applying syrup as lubricant as needed.
Me either. It’s just as effective to use the bowl or plate as a stopper instead of a spoon. You get the same end result. I have to laugh at people who try to be ‘proper’ with knife and fork and then use their thumb or fingers to push the last bits of food onto the fork, instead of using the knife as a backstop.
I mostly use the side of my fork but I keep my knife handy in my right ready – more American style if I understand the OP.
I mainly use just a fork when I eat pancakes (not often). I am not a fan of the American style fork and knife switching style. I think it is retarded and annoying frankly espically when I see a whole table clanking around awkwardly at the dinner table. I don’t hate my left hand as much as many right-handers do. It works perfectly fine for eating and lots of other things. That leaves my right hand to do cutting and drinking.