On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:12:18 -0400, Goomba38 >
wrote:

>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.

Thank you Goomba. I've never given the subject enough thought to come
up with that theory, but what you said makes perfect sense.