I said “knife and fork” and someone mocked me for it and he said “fork and knife” is right
Knifewreeeench!
How could someone have an opinion on the order in which one is supposed to name utensils?
What is the relevance of naming it in the proper order? How can one ascertain the proper order in which to name them?
Unless this is a joke, I’m puzzled.
What kind of brain dead, retarded fucking drooling troglodyte says ‘fork and knife’.
I prefer the drillfork…you can drill and fork…mostly fork!
What about the spoon? Won’t somebody think of the spoon?
Ah. I see you’ve played knifey/forky/spoony before.
I wonder why fork and knife sounds so weird for me to say.
I have two cousins named Punkin and Ricky. We always call them “Punkin and Ricky”. Never “Ricky and Punkin”. When someone noticed and mentioned it, I realized it was true, but couldn’t figure out why.
Looks to me like you need to pick your acquaintances more carefully.
You ever say you want a jelly and peanut butter sandwich?
Lots of pairs like this tend to get said in a certain order. It’s not a matter of being proper as much as it’s a matter of custom.
The first time I ever herd any say “fork and knife” was in a cafe in Townsville in Queensland. I ordered a pizza and the waitress asked whether I wanted a fork and knife (presumably rather than eat it with my hands). I nearly replied “no, I fork and don’t”…
Terrorists.
Oh you want a fork’n knife? I got your forkin’ knife right here!!
It makes me twitch when people say “pepper and salt”.
“Mom and dad” or “dad and mom”?
spork
Most states I know have a Fish & Game Dept. Arizona, for some reason,has a Game & Fish one, which also bugs me. At least the former is in proper alphabetical order.
Yep, sadly I had to pick the “Doesn’t matter” choice; since “Who the F Cares?” wasn’t an option.
“Knife and fork” is definitely the customary usage. But in my family it’s inevitably the other way 'round because of an incident in which three-year-old Cliffy misheard his father’s profane demand for a knife and, when that’s the only utensil that was produced, shouted “He said he wanted a fork AND kinfe!”
–Cliffy
When I was a kid, my dad taught me this rhyme:
“A knife and a fork,
A bottle and a cork,
And that’s the way you spell
NEW YORK!”
“Fork and (a) knife” just wouldn’t have worked for that ditty…