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Tea (also known as high tea or meat tea) is one name for the evening meal. It is associated with the working class and is typically eaten between 5 pm and 7 pm. In the North of England, North and South Wales, the English Midlands, Scotland and in rural and working class areas of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, people traditionally call their midday meal dinner and their evening meal tea (served around 6 pm), whereas the upper social classes would call the midday meal lunch or luncheon and the evening meal (served after 7 pm) dinner (if formal) or supper (if informal). This differentiation in usage is one of the classic social markers of British English.
Robertj21a said:
nonsequitur said:
Surely dinner is the mid-day meal?
Que ? - how can dinner be at lunch time ?leave the heathens to wallow in their ignorance.
The midday meal in schools is probably referred to as dinner, because presumably it was originally served to working class kids who were used to hearing their mothers call it dinner.
Years ago, I asked my old dad about the tea/dinner thing, he said that in the past, lots of people, even in the south, used to call their evening meal tea, but there had been a war since then.
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