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Default New RFC Quick Survey: What do you call...?

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:49:36 -0500, notbob wrote:

> On 2006-09-29, Kate Connally > wrote:
>
>> most surveys. I tend to think of supper, though as an
>> evening meal on Sunday


> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dinner
>
> I use breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I've never used supper. OTOH,
> I've known folks, again mostly rural, who prefer breakfast, dinner
> (lunch), supper.
>
> nb


Interesting how these words come to us. My Uncle Earl used to use
*dinners* exclusively when refering to a nice set of double "D's". LOL