Readers reply: When did the English start turning their forks upside down, and why?
Briefly

"Forks were originally straight and used to skewer food. Later, forks received a bend, which makes it easier to skewer with a push of your index finger."
"It depends whether you are spearing or scooping. Clearly both tines-up and tines-down are equally wrong."
"As a baby boomer, I was brung up proper like and never turned my fork over. However, as a victim in the late 60s of the British government's encouragement of European rapprochement..."
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