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Re: What's Your Favorite English Word?! (was: What's Your Favorite German Word?!)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:06:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Erik Olson wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron wrote:
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And I’ve liked runcible spoon since I was a child
although to this day I do not know what a runcible spoon actually is.
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Nowadays it’s that two-in-one utensil you get at Kentucky Fried Chicken. A
spork. But the term was made up purely for rhyming purposes by Edward Lear,
when it referred to a fork with one sharp curved prong and two wider prongs,
useful for spearing olives for instance.
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Sounds as though it would be perfect to use for dining on mince and slices of
quince!
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