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  2. Fork - Wikipedia

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    From left to right: dessert fork, relish fork, salad fork, dinner fork, cold cuts fork, serving fork, carving fork. In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from Latin: furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods either to hold them to cut with a ...

  3. Fork (software development) - Wikipedia

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    The word "fork" has been used to mean "to divide in branches, go separate ways" as early as the 14th century. [2] In the software environment, the word evokes the fork system call, which causes a running process to split itself into two (almost) identical copies that (typically) diverge to perform different tasks.

  4. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    The word's true origin is unknown, but it existed in the Middle Scots period. [32] [33] News: The word news has been claimed to be an acronym of the four cardinal directions (north, east, west, and south). However, old spellings of the word varied widely (e.g., newesse, newis, nevis, neus, newys, niewes, newis, nues, etc.).

  5. Latin influence in English - Wikipedia

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    The Germanic tribes who later gave rise to the English language traded and fought with the Latin speaking Roman Empire.Many words for common objects entered the vocabulary of these Germanic people from Latin even before the tribes reached Britain: anchor, butter, camp, cheese, chest, cook, copper, devil, dish, fork, gem, inch, kitchen, mile, mill, mint (coin), noon, pillow, pound (unit of ...

  6. Spork - Wikipedia

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    The word spork is a portmanteau of spoon and fork. It appeared in the 1909 supplement to the Century Dictionary , where it was described as a trade name and "a ' portmanteau -word' applied to a long, slender spoon having, at the end of the bowl, projections resembling the tines of a fork". [ 4 ]

  7. Talk:Fork - Wikipedia

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    Per the article, while China can claim the earliest (known) fork of any kind, it was the Byzantines who first used the dining fork. As the dining fork is what the word "fork" refers to in everyday English, I suggest adding Category:Byzantine inventions without removing the Chinese category. InherentDogma 17:38, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

  8. Cutlery - Wikipedia

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    The major items of cutlery in Western culture are the knife, fork and spoon. These three implements first appeared together on tables in Britain in the Georgian era . [ 4 ] In recent times, hybrid versions of cutlery have been made combining the functionality of different eating implements, including the spork ( sp oon / f ork ), spife ( sp oon ...

  9. Online Etymology Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper. [1]