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TOPIC: When is "evening"?

  • Reed John
  • Settle down, Beavis.
  • Posts: 13452
posted 03-09-2012 18:41
I just think it's weird to use "tea" to refer to the evening meal. Tea implies, at most, a small snack with the eponymous tea. Same with "getti together for coffee" or "a drink" or "drinks."

Here, it's breakfast, lunch, dinner. In between maybe coffee or a snack. Later in the evening, one can have a late desert, drinks, and maybe a post drinks meal that has no name because if one is eating a pile of starch at 2 am, one is too drunk to name it.

However, a lot of people 'round here who speak with an older, more provincial dialect, refer to lunch as dinner and dinner as supper. These people also use words like yinz, nebby, innat, etc.
posted 04-09-2012 10:12
Supper, when pronounced 'suppah', is perhaps the most middle-class word in the English language.
posted 04-09-2012 12:55
So did we already cover any or all of:

Morning tea*
Elevenses#
Brunch
High tea
Afternoon tea

*Popular in Oz
#Unheard of in Oz
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