Yep, it's breakfast - lunch - dinner. No matter if you eat your evening meal in front of the telly or at the Savoy, it's still dinner. Supper is for posh people. Tea is a drink.
so at school you had 'lunch ladies' then? Funny, the rest us had 'dinner ladies'.
Right. You know the word 'put'. Everywhere in the world, that is pronounced correctly - ie 'put'. With a u. No one ever says 'pat'.
So how come when a t is added, (putt, as in golf) it becomes 'pat'?
To the point where you pronounce the same word - putting - in a totally different way (patting).
For instance: 'His 'putting' has been 'putting' his driving to shame today.' Genuine question. As a northerner, I can't get my head round it. A u is a u. As in other European languages - why is it different here?!
so at school you had 'lunch ladies' then? Funny, the rest us had 'dinner ladies'.
No,because at school I had my proper main meal in the middle of the day, therefore it was dinner.
When I went home I had a sandwich and a biscuit or some fruit and that was tea ( as it was a little meal).
Since I've grown up and I have my proper meal at night ( as most grown up people do, as it's more convenient) it's dinner at night and lunch ( sandwich / beans on toast / jacket spud eg) at midday.
It's the type of meal that determines what it's called, not the time of day it's eaten.
When I was growing up we'd have Breakfast - Dinner at lunchtime at school - Then Tea (sandwich etc) and then my parents would have Supper (their cooked meal in the evening), Except at weekends when we'd have dinner together in the evening.
We have lunch at mid-day and tea (our main meal) in the evening if we're at home. If we went out for an evening meal we'd probably just refer to it as an "evening meal"!
No,because at school I had my proper main meal in the middle of the day, therefore it was dinner.
When I went home I had a sandwich and a biscuit or some fruit and that was tea ( as it was a little meal).
Since I've grown up and I have my proper meal at night ( as most grown up people do, as it's more convenient) it's dinner at night and lunch ( sandwich / beans on toast / jacket spud eg) at midday.
It's the type of meal that determines what it's called, not the time of day it's eaten.
I disagree.
It's always been breakfast, lunch and dinner (or supper if you are liberal and don't want to sound posh)
Tea is served at 4 o'clock and consists of a three tiered cake stand with little sandwiches on the bottom (cut in triangles with the crusts removed) and cakes and scones on the top two tiers, and a pot of tea with china cups (NOT mugs)
No idea why people insist on calling meat an two veg served a 6pm 'tea'.
No,because at school I had my proper main meal in the middle of the day, therefore it was dinner.
When I went home I had a sandwich and a biscuit or some fruit and that was tea ( as it was a little meal).
Since I've grown up and I have my proper meal at night ( as most grown up people do, as it's more convenient) it's dinner at night and lunch ( sandwich / beans on toast / jacket spud eg) at midday.
It's the type of meal that determines what it's called, not the time of day it's eaten.
When I was at school (1950s) we had breakfast at home, ate our snack in the mid-morning break, known as the lunch break, our dinner in the middle of the school day, our tea when we got home from school, and if we were lucky, got a milky drink and biscuit supper before we went to bed.
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I opened me winda and the wida down the road stopped for a chat.
I got out me wheelbarra and picked a big marra.
Is that pronounced 'boook' or 'beuwk'?
ballpoint pin
frying pin
Sith Ifrica!
Depends on which side I'm on. I've only just worked out that when I am offered a "cork" I should say "yes."
Up north, book is pronounced b-oo-k, not buck, and not buke as that would rhyme with nuke, short for nuclear; that has a y sound in it.
so at school you had 'lunch ladies' then? Funny, the rest us had 'dinner ladies'.
We had servants. :rolleyes:
What on earth are you talking about??:sleep:
No,because at school I had my proper main meal in the middle of the day, therefore it was dinner.
When I went home I had a sandwich and a biscuit or some fruit and that was tea ( as it was a little meal).
Since I've grown up and I have my proper meal at night ( as most grown up people do, as it's more convenient) it's dinner at night and lunch ( sandwich / beans on toast / jacket spud eg) at midday.
It's the type of meal that determines what it's called, not the time of day it's eaten.
But Shakespeare and presumably some of his players were from Stratford upon Avon.
No, we had dinner ladies, but they served us LUNCH.
In your school timetable was the break labelled "lunch" or "dinner"?
I can't remember ever seeing a timetable at my primary school! But mid-day meals were always referred to as school dinners.
I disagree.
It's always been breakfast, lunch and dinner (or supper if you are liberal and don't want to sound posh)
Tea is served at 4 o'clock and consists of a three tiered cake stand with little sandwiches on the bottom (cut in triangles with the crusts removed) and cakes and scones on the top two tiers, and a pot of tea with china cups (NOT mugs)
No idea why people insist on calling meat an two veg served a 6pm 'tea'.
We had "lunchtime supervisors"
When I was at school (1950s) we had breakfast at home, ate our snack in the mid-morning break, known as the lunch break, our dinner in the middle of the school day, our tea when we got home from school, and if we were lucky, got a milky drink and biscuit supper before we went to bed.
I'm a northerner, I pronounce it buck.
I also find that half the north east pronounce 8 flatly.
Teesside. My parents pronounce it buke. Me and my brother are always teasing them about it.
Do most Teessiders pronounce book and buck the same or is it just you being difficult?