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In the UK it's always knife and fork, but I'm sure I've heard Americans say fork and knife. I may be wrong.
It is usually "fork and knife" in the US.
Not in my experience
I’m from the US and I say fork and knife more often, but both work.
Edit: now that I think of it, my mother and grandmother only said “knife and fork.” Maybe it’s slowly becoming uncoupled in American English
In the lyrics to the Beatles’ song Piggies, there’s the line “clutching forks and knives”. Is that just an Americanism they picked up?