Ironically at least some of the Highland accents are often cited as the clearest English and the easiest to understand for non-native speakers.
I went to Madagascar 20 years ago. I turned on the radio in my cabin and it was tuned to BBC World Service. It was a bit of a trip hearing another tuechter's voice in the south Malagasy desert.
We just can't afford the added transport costs they plop on everything. Everyone knows 300 miles is such a ridiculously long and insurmountable distance.
Not sure about that. I know a couple of Scottish guys who walked 1000 miles. Alright, it took them 2 stints but if they did that, then 300 shouldn't be impossible at all, particularly not with a car.
In primary school in the 90s, we'd call lunch dinner (dinner time, dinner money, school dinners) but if you brought your own food it was packed lunch. But at home, we'd say dinner for the evening meal.
Tea is a delicious hot drink, I have a little milk in mine.
Breakfast is the first meal of the day after getting up.
Lunch is a midday meal.
Afternoon tea is a posh cup of tea, with a pot, and some snacks like scones, cakes and finger sandwiches.
Dinner is an evening main meal
Supper is a late evening snack.
In industrial towns you’d have dinner at lunchtime and a smaller tea after, but obviously everybody with office jobs now is getting back after six and eating when they gather the energy to do so.
Formerly, the last of the three meals of the day (breakfast, dinner, and supper); now applied to the last substantial meal of the day when dinner is taken in the middle of the day, or to a late meal following an early evening dinner. Supper is usually a less formal meal than late dinner.
My guess would be food after a late work shift, so probably working class
southern parents who lived for some time in the north, evening meal was still dinner but came with the offer of 'sauce or owt?' pronounced something like saucer aaht
They tried to teach me English in school ~30 years ago. At that moment it was "dinner" for the meal near the midday and "supper" for the evening meal. Breakfast for morning.
My mrs grew up on the Isle of Wight and says this is shite - they always had dinner. The chart should pretty much show historically industrial versus mercantile areas though - i.e. did you have the big meal of the day in the middle of or after work.
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UncleArthur@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 194d
Breakfast
Elevenses
Brunch
Lunch
Afternoon tea
Dinner
Supper
Midnight feast
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 194d
Alright, calm down Frodo
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 194d
But what about second breakfast?
fartsparkles@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 194d
Elevenses is GOAT.
waz@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 194d
What meal is this? The middle of the day? Or the one after work/school? Because I feel it’s incorrect for the east/west split in the south.
Location: new forest/hants.
rjek@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 194d
I'm in Manchester and your interpretation is 100% correct. Although... I did grow up in Hythe.
Zombie@feddit.uk · 21 pts · 194d
I guess highlanders just starve?
Klear@quokk.au · 13 pts · 194d
There can be only one, and he doesn't call it anything.
Zombie@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 194d
It's a kind of magic
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 194d
They asked multiple people but couldn't understand a word they were saying
Zombie@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 194d
Fuck this shite xenophobic bigoted patter
Small_Quasar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
Ironically at least some of the Highland accents are often cited as the clearest English and the easiest to understand for non-native speakers.
I went to Madagascar 20 years ago. I turned on the radio in my cabin and it was tuned to BBC World Service. It was a bit of a trip hearing another tuechter's voice in the south Malagasy desert.
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 194d
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 194d
Piss took too close to the sun 😭
Skua@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 194d
No wonder Orkney and Shetland have left altogether. Maybe they moved back in with Norway
Olap@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d
As a sometimes highlander: dinner far more common, but tea is the same thing
SavinDWhales@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d
Who wants to live forever?
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 191d
They eat as and when they catch something, with their bare teeth.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 194d
In Northern Scotland, they just don't eat.
YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
I'm so far north i'm not even on the map. We mostly eat fish and wind for our 'tea'.
Small_Quasar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
We just can't afford the added transport costs they plop on everything. Everyone knows 300 miles is such a ridiculously long and insurmountable distance.
HermitBee@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 194d
Not sure about that. I know a couple of Scottish guys who walked 1000 miles. Alright, it took them 2 stints but if they did that, then 300 shouldn't be impossible at all, particularly not with a car.
mech@feddit.org · 1 pts · 193d
So they walked 500 miles and then they walked 500 more?
Were they the ones who fell down at your door?
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 11 pts · 194d
In primary school in the 90s, we'd call lunch dinner (dinner time, dinner money, school dinners) but if you brought your own food it was packed lunch. But at home, we'd say dinner for the evening meal.
yakko@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 194d
They still do that at my kid's school, so he gets two dinners a day. Chaos reigns.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 194d
Yes. These all have different meanings to me.
Supper is a meal typically served in the evening, it’s the last meal of the day, but it’s informal.
Dinner is more formal, an afternoon meal with social elements and/or formality. It can be the last meal but doesn’t have to be.
Tea is an afternoon snack, typically served with tea, hence the name. Tea might be skipped if you have an early dinner.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 194d
fozid@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 194d
Tea is a delicious hot drink, I have a little milk in mine. Breakfast is the first meal of the day after getting up. Lunch is a midday meal. Afternoon tea is a posh cup of tea, with a pot, and some snacks like scones, cakes and finger sandwiches. Dinner is an evening main meal Supper is a late evening snack.
I'm from the north west.
Guilvareux@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 194d
I’m from the middle of the midlands. This is absolutely correct.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 194d
I'm from the North but I tend to use dinner for the evening meal, rather than tea. Dinner in my mind is the "big" meal of the day.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 191d
In industrial towns you’d have dinner at lunchtime and a smaller tea after, but obviously everybody with office jobs now is getting back after six and eating when they gather the energy to do so.
thehatfox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 194d
Tea. Dinner only used for Sundays or Christmas.
FishFace@piefed.social · 5 pts · 194d
Dinner is the main meal. Lunch/tea is a smaller meal.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 194d
Lunch is the main meal. Breakfast is a rushed coffee at best. Dinner is an unenthusiastic munch that takes place anytime between 4-11pm
Psaldorn@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d
I've lived in all these regions, I just say food now. Safer that way
tetris11@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 194d
Followed by "psspsspsspss" to anyone within earshot
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d
IIRC this is a class divide indicator. The fact that class maps well onto geography is just correlation.
Middle class has breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Working class has breakfast, dinner, and tea.
Supper is an outlier and definitely more unusual. In my experience it usually indicates a smaller evening meal.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 194d
https://www.etymonline.com/word/supper
My guess would be food after a late work shift, so probably working class
kip@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 194d
if you call dinner the main meal of the day, the earlier you start work, the earlier you'll have it
kip@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 194d
southern parents who lived for some time in the north, evening meal was still dinner but came with the offer of 'sauce or owt?' pronounced something like saucer aaht
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 194d
I grew up saying 'Tea' for the evening meal but changed to 'Dinner' at university - just to fit in.
When talking with my parents though, I still say Tea.
It very much does come down I think to what was historically the main meal of the day - which makes this both a regional divide, and a class divide.
sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 194d
Breakfast Dinner Tea Supper (optional)
My test is what you called the school staff who served your midday meal. Was it a "dinner lady" or "lunch lady"?!
thehatfox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 194d
The school thing is a good point. We called hot meals at school dinners, that were served by dinner ladies.
But we also had packed lunches that we ate out of lunchboxes.
sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 194d
Damn you and your logic!!
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 194d
Do you call it Christmas Dinner or Christmas Lunch?
sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 194d
Christmas dinner
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 194d
What about yesterday??
Did you have Pancake Dinner or Pancake Lunch?
sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 194d
I had pancakes for tea
wewbull@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 194d
You DINE at Christmas. You lunch when you grab something quick and light.
Gentryfried@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 194d
fox2263@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d
Annoyingly, lunch is dinner (dinner ladies at school) but also the evening meal is dinner if I haven’t had dinner (lunch) 😂 then it’s tea time.
urno@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d
Dinner = posh Tea = pov Supper = aristocracy
determinist@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 194d
me: tea
ex-gf: supper
her parents were born in India (not Indian. "British". Servants, boarding school, all that shit)
thlibos@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 194d
Dinner is around 2pm and the biggest meal of the day. Supper is around 7 pm.
smeg@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 194d
ignoble_stigmas@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 194d
This country is obviously in decline, cold tea
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org · 2 pts · 194d
Having moved from a tea-saying region of England to Northern Ireland, I haven't heard anyone say "tea" around here for an evening meal
Lembot_0006@programming.dev · 2 pts · 194d
They tried to teach me English in school ~30 years ago. At that moment it was "dinner" for the meal near the midday and "supper" for the evening meal. Breakfast for morning.
Sounded quite logical and convenient.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 191d
My mrs grew up on the Isle of Wight and says this is shite - they always had dinner. The chart should pretty much show historically industrial versus mercantile areas though - i.e. did you have the big meal of the day in the middle of or after work.
twinnie@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 194d
I live in the south west and it’s dinner for tea.