Learning a noisy musical instruments

[icowden]

that's the odd thing with me and my brother... I hold my knife in my left hand and fork in the right, but my brother is right handed and holds his knife and fork the opposite way. I don't know what the 'proper' way is supposed to be.

FWIW it dates from before cutlery. You kept your dagger or shortsword in your right hand and used that for cutting meat, skewering food you couldn't reach etc and it meant that you had it handy if a fight broke out.

But I'm with your brother I always use the fork in my right hand - and I'm right handed.

 

[Drago]

that's the odd thing with me and my brother... I hold my knife in my left hand and fork in the right, but my brother is right handed and holds his knife and fork the opposite way. I don't know what the 'proper' way is supposed to be.

The Muricans tend to hold their fork in their right hand, knife in left, opposite to the British. Holding them the British way is seen as very posh and la di dah over there.

 

[briantrumpet]

The Muricans tend to hold their fork in their right hand, knife in left, opposite to the British. Holding them the British way is seen as very posh and la di dah over there.

They are correct - so much table etiquette is about putting down those who don't follow arcane and (sometimes) stupid 'rules'.

The French look at anything more than one knife and fork as being deeply weird, given that our mouths stay the same size and shape, as do our hands. My parents cutlery set had fish forks included, which, apart from the tiny non-functional notches above the prongs, were just a normal fork. But if you aspired to be middle class, well...

 

[MontyVeda]

They are correct - so much table etiquette is about putting down those who don't follow arcane and (sometimes) stupid 'rules'.

The French look at anything more than one knife and fork as being deeply weird, given that our mouths stay the same size and shape, as do our hands. My parents cutlery set had fish forks included, which, apart from the tiny non-functional notches above the prongs, were just a normal fork. But if you aspired to be middle class, well...

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needs a tuning fork to get the thread back on topic.

But which hand to hold it in is debatable.