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Sporking about with the lingo Some of the world’s most troubling dilemmas have been tackled on this page in the 18 years Rogers has been Rabbiting.
collided with the spoon truck from the spoon factory (presumably at a fork in the road)? Should the question mark be there, or after ‘factory’? And who decided it would be called a spork? Why wasn’t it a foon? Our resident language geek tells us One of those issues was that words created from two are called solved in 2015 when we finally portmanteau words. The original refers to a clarified, for the benefit of the piece of baggage, with two compartments. world, the correct protocol for Blame the French. Well, according to use of a spork. Wikipedia (possibly a portmanteau Spork At the same time, we word itself), sporks are also attempted to shed some known as foons. decency on the dress standard “Spork-like utensils, such of Donald Duck, who resolutely as the terrapin fork or refuses to wear pants. Up until ice cream fork, have this time, the two subjects had not been been manufactured connected, and probably still shouldn’t be. since the late 19th But as you know, logic has no place on page Century; patents two of The Weekend Sun. Knork for spork-like Now the spork/knork field has all been designs date back thrown into disarray with the development of to at least 1874, yet another piece of hybrid cutlery: and the word ‘spork’ was registered as a The Splitter. trademark in the US and the UK decades later. They are used by fast food restaurants, schools, prisons, the military, backpackers and in airline meals.” We can probably thank Samuel W. Francis, who was issued a US patent in 1874. Harry L. McCoy also came up with a clever thing, a cutting spoon patented in 1908. Harry, as far as we know, didn’t come up with a catchy name though. INTEREST FREE Some say unless it’s afolk spork, Forwould those technically minded who it’s not Normal lending cri the real Andcutlery thenclassification there’s a knork, teria apply need McCoy. to know their which Mr Wiki says is a hybrid form of cutlery which combines the cutting capability Warm & dry in winter of a knife and the spearing capability of a fork into a single utensil. 99% UV protection in summer Roald Dahl writes that his father invented This device is made up of two components The Fujitsu an early version of the knork as a result of – a long spork and a spatula – that can join Stylish & permanent forces to become a set of tongs. They do so by losing an arm. Horatio Nelson, minus an way of a keyhole slot at the base of the spork’s arm, also used a fork with a cutting edge, Engineered for NZ conditions known as a Nelson fork. I’ve seen some handle that accommodates and locks a pin in interesting knorks in my time, but none of place at the base of the spatula’s handle. ‘Finger Sporks’ are handy. Optional side curtains them have been that pointy. From there, the one-millimetre thick English boffins tell us the blended words are titanium material offers just the right amount 5 year warranty known as ‘portmanteau’ which is combining of flex to get tonging. It’s being promoted by the company Full Windsor and is much more two words to make a new one. I have no idea what portmanteau means sophisticated than the spork. but you can blame Lewis Carroll, who first As we discovered back in ’15, no-one has BAY BAYOF OF PLENTY PLENTY used it in that context. really ’fessed up to inventing the spork. Then we got smog - a combo of smoke Was it accidental? Did a spoon maker go and fog, in case you didn’t know. Followed CALL DARREN PEATTIE M 021 02538444 completely bonkers and put spikes on a by wurly, hair that is wavey and curly at spoon, or did a fork maker have a midlife E bayofplenty@archgola.co.nz the same time. Confused? Let me explain crisis and inadvertently add a scoopy bit on it over brunch. Then there’s a whole gaggle the wrong piece of cutlery? www.archgola.co.nz of company contrived labels. Such as Perhaps the forklift from the fork factory
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Microsoft, and even the tradename Velcro - a combination of velour (velvet) and crochet (hook). A skort is a mash up of skirt and shorts. Probably still not acceptable to Donald. However, he should be concerned about ‘turkducken’, which was added to the Oxford Dictionary in 2010. It’s a culinary masterpiece in which a chicken is inserted into a duck (take its pants off if necessary); and the duck into a turkey. You’ll need a spork for that. Then someone, probably trying to cover their backside, coined the phrase ‘guesstimate’ and more recently our attempts to chill out and relax at the same time have resulted in a chillax. Even celebrities have jumped on the portmanteau wagon, with merged name combos that have given us the cringeful Brangelina, TomKat and Beniffer. I guess it won’t be long before we see some new combinations, such as: Dexting = Driving and texting. Apologies to Dexter. Craptacular = Used to describe entertainment that is so gut-wrenchingly terrible, you can’t take your eyes off it. Please feel free to send in your ideas for new words. We’ll publish them here first, so you’ll be noted in the annals of history as the official inventor. In the meantime, if I catch any of you dexting, I’m going to spork your eyes out.
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IMPORTANT STUFF: All material is copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. Sun Media makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all information and accepts no liability for errors or omissions or the subsequent use of information published. The word ‘spork’ was offically added to the dictionary in 1909 and the earliest spork designs were created for eating ice cream.