Russian gender colours & forks

[E Wayles Browne]

Be of good cheer. I call them tines. I just showed a fork to my wife, and she immediately said tines too. (I'm from the Boston area, northeast U.S., and she's from New York City and Washington.)
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Simon Beattie [Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 5:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian gender colours & forks

Just an aside, but does no one else call them "tines", rather than "prongs"?
Perhaps it's only British English usage, and limited usage at that.

Simon


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[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Dunn
Sent: 21 September 2012 09:57
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian gender colours & forks

Although Elena Molokhovets in her Подарокъ молодымъ хозяйкамъ [Podarok"
molodym" xozjajkam"], first published in 1901, has a picture of carving fork
with but three prongs.

John Dunn.
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