Originally Posted by nethead

What is 'supper'? I guess it's what posh people call dinner... I still sometimes call dinner 'me tea' but I'm just a working class girl.

I don't mind 'nana' better than 'granny' I think.

Originally Posted by CAdreaming

im from the North (UK) and we have dinner (lunch) and tea (evening meal).

I say to my US husband - what shall we have for tea and he gets very confused!!!
Tea for him is either an iced drink (vile) or a hot drink without milk (vile)
Im having to train him!!! He uses the word Rubbish for trash now and loves boot and bonnet!!!
Supper is the last meal of the day and is just hot choc and a biccy...
Oh we have such fun!!! (said with a heavy dose of irony obviously!! )

Originally Posted by robin1234

Glad to hear you're getting him trained up.

Originally Posted by robin1234

It is a bit different from ain't .. ain't is just an old contraction of has not, or have not.

"A whole nother" is an example of a tmesis, the insertion of a word between the components of a compound word. Obviously "a whole nother" is somewhat redundant, but it is more emphatic than plain "another."

Tmesis was used in classical latin as a fairly common literary device. In English, another example would be "abso-f**king-lutely."

(Just to add.. what makes "a whole nother" amusing is that the break between the syllables is clearly made in the wrong place, should be "an whole other" which doesn't roll off the tongue as well.)

Originally Posted by helwardman

I think the lunch-dinner thing is a north-south thing.

I was brought up in Yorkshire in the 70s & 80s and we always had breakfast-dinner-tea-supper in that order. Supper usually consisted of some toast and a cup of tea or some biscuits and a cup of tea or some Soreen and a cup of tea at about 8pm, right after Name That Tune or The Krypton Factor.

When I first left home at the tender age of 18 and started mixing with Southerners for the first time, it became apparent that they all had their dinners at teatime and tea was not a meal, but a drink.

Now, sadly, I have become accustomed to using breakfast-lunch-dinner-snack.

Originally Posted by Sally Redux

I'm a southerner and we said breakfast-dinner-tea, however realized that the 'posh' way is breakfast-lunch-dinner-supper.

Originally Posted by Bob

I'm not posh and it's always been breakfast/lunch/dinner.

Tea was around 3 and was a cup of tea and biscuits or a small sarnie.

Supper was something you saw said on tele

Originally Posted by General Tojo

Sorry, I know it must have been discussed on here before but what do the Septics call the dinner ladies who served up our delightful school lunches?

Originally Posted by General Tojo

Supper is soup.

Sorry, I know it must have been discussed on here before but what do the Septics call the dinner ladies who served up our delightful school lunches?

Originally Posted by General Tojo

Supper is soup.

Sorry, I know it must have been discussed on here before but what do the Septics call the dinner ladies who served up our delightful school lunches?

Originally Posted by Sancho_p

I hate it when my American relatives ask me "which rowt did you travel?"

The ROUTE ( pronounced root) I came was...................

Originally Posted by Sancho_p

I hate it when my American relatives ask me "which rowt did you travel?"

The ROUTE ( pronounced root) I came was...................

Originally Posted by Sally Redux

'Supper' was something my boyfriend's parents ate - with cloth napkins