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Lunch Time/dinner Time
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this discussion has probably been done to death on here.
Himself yesters said that the student alba will be in at dinner time. For me, that's between 5 and 7pm
Lunch is between noon and 2pm
According to himself, dinner time is between noon and 2, and it's teatime between 5 and 7.
So I asked him what does he eat when he gets up in the morning?
Answer, food.
Jeez!!
Himself yesters said that the student alba will be in at dinner time. For me, that's between 5 and 7pm
Lunch is between noon and 2pm
According to himself, dinner time is between noon and 2, and it's teatime between 5 and 7.
So I asked him what does he eat when he gets up in the morning?
Answer, food.
Jeez!!
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One cannot hope to explain the meaning of dinner better than simply by quoting what The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has to say..."The chief meal of the day, eaten originally and still by the majority of people about the middle of the day, but now, by the professional and fashionable classes, usually in the evening."
School meals are called school 'dinners' for the very simple reason that the vast majority of pupils who attended state schools when such meals were first provided were (still are?) the children of working-class parents. And the working folk of Britain do, by and large, still speak of the midday meal as 'dinner'. Obviously, therefore, that usage would be carried over from home to school.
It is not a case of anyone's meal-list being right or wrong. It is clear that this whole thing is almost entirely a matter of perceived class and - to some extent - geography.
School meals are called school 'dinners' for the very simple reason that the vast majority of pupils who attended state schools when such meals were first provided were (still are?) the children of working-class parents. And the working folk of Britain do, by and large, still speak of the midday meal as 'dinner'. Obviously, therefore, that usage would be carried over from home to school.
It is not a case of anyone's meal-list being right or wrong. It is clear that this whole thing is almost entirely a matter of perceived class and - to some extent - geography.
