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As a Londoner who moved north, it continually confuses me too. "What are you having for tea?" "Oh, err... just milk thanks"
by jwarren 9y ago
As a Londoner who moved north, it continually confuses me too.
"What are you having for tea?"
"Oh, err... just milk thanks"
- skety 9y agoYeah, and dinner being used for lunch while tea is used for dinner. Not confusing at all.
- _puk 9y agoAt least you know where you stand with supper, right?!
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoYeah, and with breakfast, cause that's always in the morning ... like a nice afternoon wedding breakfast.
- Khoth 9y agoWell, that depends. In Scotland, "supper" generally means "with chips".
- schrodinger 9y agoAnd which meaning of "chips"?
- nicky0 9y agoThe Scottish one
- QAPereo 9y agoI remember the lunches I used to have back in primary school up in Scotland; instead of having a school dinner, you used to go down to the chip shop, and their 'lunch' was a bag of chips, and you got a free potato fritter. So it was essentially a bag of chips, with a really big chip. Frankie Boyle
- wazoox 9y agoIn French, dejeuner, meaning literally breakfast, used to mean just that. But the nobility was used to getting up so late that dejeuner became lunch, diner became the evening meal, and they invented the 'petit dejeuner' to name the breakfast. In southern France and rural areas, dejeuner remained breakfast, dinner the mid-day meal, and souper the evening one. Miscommunication ensues :)
- baby 9y agoPeople say “dejeuner” to mean breakfast a lot. But everyone knows that it is also not correct (we always this kind of people that will correct people on that)
- mewfree 9y agoIn Québec and French Canada in general déjeuner/dîner/souper kept its original meaning too!
- yesenadam 9y agoThe word 'dîner' also meant breakfast! Wiktionary says: dîner, From Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from disieiūnāre, disjejūnāre (“to break the fast”)
- darrenf 9y agoI don't think it has much to do with being a Londoner; I'm one too (native and resident), yet have used the "breakfast → dinner|lunch → tea" sequence my entire life.
- adrianratnapala 9y agoBeing a Sri Lankan immigrant to Australia, I say dinner, lunch and breakfast. But I always was familar with tea being meal in England. I though it was something I got from my Noddy and William books. But actually, it might just have been an Australian thing that I was reading into othose books. When I acutally went and lived in London, I learned that it was a northern thing. Which is odd, because in other ways Australia seems to be dominated by London culture. Or at least Australians talk like Londoners.