New RFC Quick Survey: What do you call...?
biig wrote:
> In my neck of the woods, dinner was always the noon meal, but when I
> was a child we had our main meal at noon. Nowadays, our noon meal more
> often gets called lunch and our evening meal, supper. My sisters call
> it dinner since becoming "city people" ...lol.... I always call the
> evening meal supper......Sharon in SW Ontario Canada
If one has their main meal "dinner" at noon, the next meal is "supper".
If one has a "lunch" at noon, the later meal in the day is "dinner".
I've never heard anyone call a later meal after a noontiime "dinner"
lunch, have you? The only other thing to make sense would be a family
tea after that noon dinner. Tea (or high tea, which is a humorous way of
calling a casual filling supper type meal) is an alternative word to use.
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