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Word of the Day: Spork, Splayd, Spife, and Knork
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | Word of the Day |
It looks like the spork is the only spoon descendent that’s practical for lifting soup to lip altitude. Backpackers know that a spoon and a Swiss army knife are all you really need, even if those titanium sporks fill our campfire dreams.
And for East meets West harmony there’s always forkchops.
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7 Comments to Word of the Day: Spork, Splayd, Spife, and Knork
You’re toying with powerful forces here.
Eseell´s last blog post..Thank You
Hmmm, one might get shived while slurping soup from a spife
DirtCrashr´s last blog post..Experiment in Terror
I gotta say I don’t really get “splayd.” The sp is spoon, but I don’t see how the rest of it connects with fork or knife.
Les Jones´s last blog post..Word of the Day: Spork, Splayd, Spife, and Knork
Seconded, Les. I do approve of the other suggested name for that particular tool, though: sporf.
Linoge´s last blog post..millennium manor
May 29, 2009
“Sporf”. I like it!
May 29, 2009
Can we next have a Venn diagram describing the intersection of napkins, place mats, and table cloths?
May 29, 2009
The word Splayd is derived from Spoon and Blade, the blade part being spelt “layd” probably due to Marketing types liking to misspell words for whatever reason, maybe they think it’s “hip” or “edgy”.
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May 28, 2009