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submitted 2 days ago by als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

Fixed phrase of two or more conventionally joined words

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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