[Mgs] Their back!!

[Mike Eldred]

Yes, my parents taught me it was rude to eat with both hands, but they were
sticklers for our old-fashioned table manners.  Living in Europe, I soon
learned to eat native style to keep from being stared at in restaurants. I
remember a German acquaintance telling me that they wonder what it is we're
doing with our left hand under the table when we eat, and suspect the worst.



Years later, I remember sitting down to my first meal with my new (Irish)
inlaws - everyone watching me until my brother-in-law finally said, "well, at
least he doesn't eat like an American."  Apparently they're amused by the
whole moving the fork to the left hand, picking the knife up, cutting, setting
the knife down, switching the fork back to the right hand, and eating with
your left hand in your lap thing.





> To: paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk; simon.d.matthews at gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:41:07 -0400
> From: atweditor at aol.com
> CC: mgs at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Their back!!
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> Americans also eat with knife and fork the same way our settler forefathers
> (and foremothers) ate, cutting, then putting down the knife to use the fork
> curved side up, or so I have read. I prefer the "European" style of plowing
> through with knife and fork held all of the time.
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> Jay Donoghue
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews at gmail.com>
> Cc: Mgs at autox.team.net LIST <mgs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tue, Apr 13, 2010 4:05 am
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Their back!!
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> Morse was an arrogant miserable misogynist. 'Oxford' spelling can be
> recognised by its (or is that it's ...) ize spellings although ise has been
> standard English English for decades. However the Times only changed in
1990
> (to the tine of 'the Times, they are a-changing'?). The American use of ize
> is, like 'fall' for Autumn, older English fallen into disuse here but not
> there.
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> PaulH.
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> ----- Original Message ----- > The use of -ise is actually relatively
recent
> in English usage. I have
> > a Compact Oxford English dictionary that I bought in 1975 -- it shows
> > words spelled using -ize as preferable to words spelled -ise.
> >
> > More recently, there was an episode of Inspector Morse (the original
> > series with John Thaw), in which he identified an educated writer
> > through the use of -ize spellings.
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