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Please use these words in your entry today: Mother, accurate, handy, relevance, reckless, swop, fork, and accountable.

My dear mother was a stickler for good manners. Fork in the left hand, knife in the right. I now see that many people swop their fork into their right hands when transferring their food from the plate to mouth. Perhaps it’s in America this is more prevalent. Being left-handed myself I always held the belief that everyone ate left-handed! Is this an accurate observation or is this an example of old-fashioned etiquette and has no relevance today? Obviously, it makes more sense to use your right hand for food transferral if one is right-handed. Especially when attempting to get a forkful of peas from plate to mouth, one would be reckless to attempt it with the least dominant hand.
Besides table manners we should all be accountable for our actions. Respect seems to be on the wane, especially in schools toward their teachers. Sometimes I think it would be handy for the teachers to regain the upper hand and to be allowed to implement punishments which fit the crime. I never believed in corporal punishment but a rap over the knuckles now and again wouldn’t go amiss.