Sir, – David Sexton (Letters, May 29th) declares that forks are not cutlery, while scissors are. Interestingly, the Oxford and other dictionaries include forks in the family of cutlery.
I believe our American cousins usually define knives as cutlery but the rest of the utensils as flatware or silverware.
As a fellow pedant, I generally take care when cycling to avoid the fork in the road for obvious reasons. – Yours, etc,
PATRICK JUDGE,
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Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.