"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:36:48 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
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>>> There is one difference seen in the past mostly where supper was
>>> delivered at almost english tea time (but was more substantial than a
>>> tea) and the kids ate at about 6pm and later after they were in bed, a
>>> dinner was served at roughly 8pm for the adults.
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>>> I think the english used to have a 'supper' and a dinner as well, both
>>> in the evening for hard working farmers but not sure.
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>>> In areas that use both terms though, supper is always the earlier one.
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>> Supper in my family was reserved as the term to name the light meal
>> Sunday evening when the large meal of the day (Sunday dinner) was
>> served in the early to mid-afternoon. Personally, I think the word
>> "supper" is an archaic term and don't use it.
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> When I was a child, we had a main meal in the middle of the day, tea early
> evening and last thing at night, a hot drink and biscuit was called
> supper.
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> Now we eat our dinner around 4pm and maybe a snack later.

Hmmm... It is not uncommon for people to eat dinner here as late as 8:00 or
9:00 p.m. If they work and have a long commute, they might not get home
until 6:00 or 7:00 and then have to fix dinner.

We have occasionally eaten at 4:00 when Angela had a dance class starting at
5:00 and then several more classes following it but we are the exception.