why is a spoon called a spoon?

i donnon whys a fork called a fork and whys a monkey called a monkey?also i aggre lay off it! To make people like you ask questions like this one.

The English word spoon derives from Old English spōn, meaning "chip or splinter of wood or horn carved from a larger piece, shaving," from a Proto-Germanicc root sp?nuz (cf. Old Norse spann, sponn "chip, splinter," Swedish sp?n "a wooden spoon," Old Frisian spon, Medieval Dutch spaen, Dutch spaan, Old High German span, German Span "chip, splinter"), , in turn deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root spe-, denoting 'a long piece of wood', probably in the sense of a wedge (cf. Greek sphen "wedge").

The meaning "eating utensil" is recorded c.1300 in English, probably from Old Norse sponn, which meant "spoon" as well as "chip, tile" (development of the "eating utensil" sense is specific to Medieval England and Scandinavia, though Medieval Low German spon also meant "wooden spatula").
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if u say spoon, ur lips form a spoon shape when u say it.
try it. i think spoon is probarly a word deducted it from latin.

Because the word caught on, showed up in the dictionary and has lasted. Once you've made it to Webster's, its in. It comes from the word spork. When you take the teeth off, your removing the fork part of it, so you' re left with spo. Then you put stuff "on" it, so "spo" + "on" you get spoon.
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I'm bored.

Aliens. they did EVERYTHING! if you don't know something, and it's not in the books, I'm telling you, it was aliens! they, are, responsible.
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well, let's just say, I wondered what caused everything that isn't in the books, and, I didn't find the answer to that in any of the books.