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carmella chihuahua · people's princess lol Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 1158

The word spork is a portmanteau word combining the words spoon and fork. The word "spork" appeared in the 1909 supplement to the Century Dictionary, where it was described as a trade name and "a 'portmanteau-word' applied to a long, slender spoon having at the end of the bowl projections resembling the tines of a fork." A variation of the spork is the splade, which in addition to the overall spoon shape, and fork tines, has a somewhat sharp edge or blade on one or both sides. Spork and Splade is not translatable to any language except english.

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carmella chihuahua · people's princess lol Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 1158

A spork held by the prongs and facing downwards can be used to find hidden underground streams.

wraeth · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:33 am Post subject:

A douspork

2wheeledathiest · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 7:20 am Post subject:

A spork that can be rested on the stomach is a bellyspork...

snouty · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject:

Originally, the spork was used in Medieval times. It was not then called the 'spork', though, and looked very different from the spork used today. Instead, it was merely an odd combination of a spoon and a fork, a utensil somewhere in-between, where it was commonly used in thick soups. However, the spork was very unpopular in the Medieval ages and was not used popularly until the later Victorian ages.

2wheeledathiest · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject:

During viscious storms sporks sometimes conducted lightning. As they did this weird bluish sparks were given off. These were known as `spork cracklings'.