c/showerthoughts · by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 114dA fork with three tines should be called a threek. 195 points · 38 comments · view on lemmy.world
38 Comments
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 35 pts · 114d
Lol, enjoy the upvote.
But that would be a trident, no?
Davel23@fedia.io · 30 pts · 114d
Then why isn't a four-tined fork called a quadent?
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 114d
I think we've found the real solution to this problem.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 110d
Or a “frident”.
Mothra@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 114d
A giant three pronged fork is a trident
rem26_art@fedia.io · 17 pts · 114d
what would we call a
?
Admetus@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 114d
A backscratcher
SolacefromSilence@fedia.io · 12 pts · 114d
Septork of course!
___@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 114d
Sevenk
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 114d
That's a rake
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 114d
A monstrosity
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 114d
I don't know but I want to burn its owner at the stake upside down so he has to scream through the drippings of his own rendered fat.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 113d
Annoying to use
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 114d
Compadre?
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 114d
a mutant
Mechanite@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 114d
A freak
netvor@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 112d
foreachkAzrael@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 114d
No, a three tined fork is a tiny trident
mcqtom@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 114d
We've been calling them that for decades. Where have you been?
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 113d
Trident
someguy3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 114d
Sheldon was right, it's a Trident.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 114d
So chop-sticks are "Oneks"
uselessartifact@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 113d
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 114d
That thing you use to poke at stuff on the grill is called a toque. A spear is a onek (pronounced "wunk")
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 114d
Instructions unclear, I now have a grill poker stuck into my head and my head is still cold.
doctorspike@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 114d
What about a “thork”?
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 114d
Only if the fork can be called a fourk.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 114d
M137@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 113d
A threk*
It's "fork" not "fourk", so removing a letter should be a rule.
winkly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 113d
A fork in the streets…
kugel7c@feddit.org · 3 pts · 113d
Kuchengabel
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 112d
Kommentarsektion... Eigentum... Bundesrepublik... usw.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 114d
it would be a rake if its more than 4.
webp@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 113d
Fish (plural) should be fiish/feesh
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 113d
The meese and moxen did not agree to that.
Hupf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 113d
What about a school of fish?
webp@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 113d
Fiish flock
Onyxonblack@piefed.social · 2 pts · 114d
*Thrike
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 113d
We have two-pronged campfire sticks that we call twoks.