In our house dinner is the last meal of the day, lunch is at noon and we
don't use the word supper at all.

<sf> wrote in message ...
> 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.