That this should become prescriptive is by no means to be taken for granted, since eating aided by a knife in the right hand to cut bite-size fragments off the food must usually, given righthandedness, involve or have involved handling the food with the left hand, and the use of knife and fork has resulted in a European (cum British) norm of putting food into the mouth with fork held in the left hand, as distinguished from the American norm of using the fork held in the right hand.

I touch not now the vulgar thought, as of tricks and cheateries in trade; / I speak of honest purpose, character, speech and action: …

Helen, who is sitting just in front of her, stops playing, and turns to her. Petra, I think we should cool it here. But that is what I do, says Petra. This is supposed to be cool. Ur-cool.

Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds.