Lunch/Dinner or Dinner/Tea (supper)
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Dead simple. Get rid of afternoon tea and supper (as they are snacks, not meals). Then you are left with the standard three meals, which can be categorised as follows :
Oop North: Breakfast, Dinner, Tea.
Dahn Saaaarf: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
How do I know this? Because I am that great rarity; a Mancunian from Wythenshawe who went to public school. Where I was once actually told off for using the Northern terms. Currently living amongst the soft Southern b*stards here in Kent, where just about EVERYONE uses the Southern vernacular.
Oop North: Breakfast, Dinner, Tea.
Dahn Saaaarf: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
How do I know this? Because I am that great rarity; a Mancunian from Wythenshawe who went to public school. Where I was once actually told off for using the Northern terms. Currently living amongst the soft Southern b*stards here in Kent, where just about EVERYONE uses the Southern vernacular.
It's because up North, the simple manual folk led simple manual lives and the lunchtime meal was the main meal of the day as they had by that time been toiling at mill for some time already.
Whereas in civilisation the thinkers of the day would arise later and their main meal would be in the evening.
Dinner relates to the main meal, hence why its in a different place down South than it is oop North.
Whereas in civilisation the thinkers of the day would arise later and their main meal would be in the evening.
Dinner relates to the main meal, hence why its in a different place down South than it is oop North.
calibrax said:
Oop North: Breakfast, Dinner, Tea.
Dahn Saaaarf: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
How do I know this? Because I am that great rarity; a Mancunian from Wythenshawe who went to public school. Where I was once actually told off for using the Northern terms. Currently living amongst the soft Southern b*stards here in Kent, where just about EVERYONE uses the Southern vernacular.
That was what prompted me to ask, my lad goes to a Grammar school (granted oop North) yet he was talking about his dinner break which surprised me as I assumed they would call it lunch as I did at a public school (again oop North).Dahn Saaaarf: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
How do I know this? Because I am that great rarity; a Mancunian from Wythenshawe who went to public school. Where I was once actually told off for using the Northern terms. Currently living amongst the soft Southern b*stards here in Kent, where just about EVERYONE uses the Southern vernacular.
But I've always had tea at night so guess I've got a foot in both camps so to speak.
Sid James. Mwa-haha!
Plotloss said:
It's because up North, the simple manual folk led simple manual lives and the lunchtime meal was the main meal of the day as they had by that time been toiling at mill for some time already.
Whereas in civilisation the thinkers of the day would arise later and their main meal would be in the evening.
Dinner relates to the main meal, hence why its in a different place down South than it is oop North.
Is that right Plotters? Whereas in civilisation the thinkers of the day would arise later and their main meal would be in the evening.
Dinner relates to the main meal, hence why its in a different place down South than it is oop North.
Never knew that.
Yup I'm Northern working stock. Breakfast, Dinner then Tea.
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