Now that, McGrath, I hope is tongue in cheek! I once read how the differing fashions regarding fork tines came about- at one time it was fashionable for the Brits to use the fork tines down, and then the upper class changed it to tines up and then they changed it to tines down, where it has remained, and the hoi polloi faithfully (slavishly?) followed. Sounds to me a bit like copying the proverbial lisp of a former monarch.

I'm going to look it up again.