Conversation with ThePinkThing last night at a restaurant:
TPT: How come this fork has only 3 points?
Me: Some forks only have 3. It's how they're made, and the points are called tines.
TPT: But that's not right. They're *supposed* to have 4 points.
Me: Really? Why do you think that?
TPT: That's why they're called forks. Right?
So after a brief silence then some hysterical laughter, we all decided that forks with 3 tines should really be called "threeks".
The logic of an eight year-old is very interesting, isn't it?
4 comments:
She's... she's absolutely right!
That totally took me a minute.
And...what Eric said.
LOL. Good for her. You have a bright girl there, not that this should be any surprise, looking at her parents!
I've been calling them threeks for years. More than eight, for sure. :)
Ask her about the two-pronged ones sometime (the ancestral form).
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