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The slightly snooty Daily Telegraph style guide: "Christmas lunch is what most of our readers would eat, not Christmas dinner. Use the latter only if referring
by somewhatoff 9y ago
The slightly snooty Daily Telegraph style guide:
"Christmas lunch is what most of our readers would eat, not Christmas dinner. Use the latter only if referring specifically to an evening meal."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/about-us/style-book/1435309/Telegraph-style-book-Cc.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/about-us/style-book/143530...
- signal11 9y ago(Being slightly facetious) This confirms my suspicion that the Telegraph caters to a very small minority: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Christmas+lunch%2CChristmas+dinner&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CChristmas%20lunch%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CChristmas%20dinner%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Christmas+lunc... Also this: https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=Christmas%20lunch,Christmas%20dinner https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=Christmas%20lun...
- stordoff 9y agoEven in Southern England (Cambridge), I don't think I've ever heard the phrase "Christmas lunch".
- buckminster 9y agoIf you're ready for Christmas dinner at lunchtime there was something wrong with Christmas breakfast.