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Fixed phrase of two or more conventionally joined words

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[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Fried ham, fried ham
Cheese and baloney
And after the macaroni
We will have fried ham.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago

Aka a "binomial irreversible"

[-] toad@lemmy.ml 7 points 12 hours ago

I'm definitely going to start reversing these to fuck with people.

[-] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours 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.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago

It is usually "fork and knife" in the US.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 5 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

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours 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?

this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2026
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