Is it fork and knife or knife and fork?

Question

Just a few queries?

Is it knife and fork or fork and knife?

Is it table cover or table cloth?

Is it dressing gown or house coat?

Please suggest and state why you chose your answer.

Answer 1

It's a knife and fork cause I once knew a child who couldn't say fork, and one time, I had him at the zoo, we were in the cafe and he started shouting 'I WANT MY FUK AND KNIFE'!!! Everyone thought he was shouting he wanted his fu*king knife!!! I have never been more embarrassed.

It's a Table cloth cause it sounds better

And It's a house coat, because I'm from Ireland and we're all messed up!!! LOL


Good question!!!
D*

P.S. I wish some people would liven up and wind their necks in for you!!!

Answer 2

Knife and fork. Knives are more important than forks.

Table cloth. It covers the table, but is made of cloth.

Dressing gown. I grew up using the term, and had never heard the term 'house coat' until a few years ago!

Answer 3

It is amazing what is on the net?

It should be knife and fork as the knife pre dates the fork. see explanation.
Take, for example, the evolution of a simple artifact such as the dining fork. A brief investigation into the origin of forks reveals the surprising fact that forks are in fact descended from knives (Petroski 1992). During the Middle Ages, people began to eat with two knives, using one knife to cut food and the other to spear and bring food to the mouth. The fork first appeared as a variation on this practice, with the second knife being replaced with a two-tined prong that was more effective in picking up food. Although it is unclear precisely when these 'knife-replacements' started appearing, we know for certain that dining forks were used in the eleventh century in Tuscany among the wealthy, against the express wishes of the church (Panati 1989). There is also evidence that dining forks were used in royal courts in the Middle East as early as the seventh century.

Table cloth
Dressing gown

because my mum told me..

Answer 4

Fork and Knife, table cloth and dressing gown. Just because.

Answer 5

knife and fork it dosn't sound right the other way round
both table cover is on table when not in use then taken off and a table cloth is put on when it is
and again both dressing gown when you being down to earth and house coat when you are being posh

Answer 6

Depends which country you come from I guess....but

Knife and fork -- don't think I've heard it the other way
Tablecloth -- never heard 'table cover'
Dressing gown -- house coat must be the US version

PS I am English

Answer 7

I eat my pizza with my hands. I once went over to a friends domicile and they prepared pizza for dinner and set out some knives and forks. i replaced into so puzzled so I merely began eating the pizza with my hands although the full relations merely stared at me like if i replaced into an alien and someone stated "do not you've a knife and fork?" curiously to them it replaced into impolite to eat with my hands, so i tried to eat some thing else of it with the knife and fork and it replaced into so no longer conceivable for me that I merely stopped eating all mutually and stated I wasn't hungry anymore.

Answer 8

Definitely 'Knife and fork'. The otherway round sounds like the joke 'Waiter: where is my fork n knife? Anwer: Under you fork n nose.

Answer 9

I say knife and fork, table cloth, and dressing gown.

It all depends on where you're from, what your family says... etc.

Answer 10

It's definitely :-

Knife and fork, table cloth, dressing gown.

because it's always been that way.