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Fixed phrase of two or more conventionally joined words

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[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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

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