They found that 74 per cent of Scots surveyed call their evening meal dinner. Only 19 per cent think it should be called tea while six per cent said it should be called supper. The findings set Scots apart from our neighbours in the north of England where the evening meal is often referred to as tea.
Some people in Britain and Australia refer to their main evening meal as "tea" rather than "dinner" or "supper", but generally, with the exception of Scotland and Northern England, "tea" refers to a light meal or a snack.
Breakfast - between 7:00 and 9:00, Lunch - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m. Dinner (sometimes called Supper) - The main meal. Eaten anytime between 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. (Evening meal)
Supper, as in "kitchen" or "country", is upper class.
Supper was originally a secondary lighter evening meal. The main meal of the day, called dinner, used to be served closer to what is known as lunchtime, around the middle of the day, but crept later over the centuries, mostly over the course of the 19th century.
repast. He proclaimed it a splendid repast. blowout (slang) collation. nosh-up (informal)
For example, you may have heard Australians pronounce the word dinner as dinna. Keep this in mind when listening to Australians, especially the locals that have strong accents.
Lunch lady, in Canada and the US, is a term for a woman who cooks and serves food in a school cafeteria. The equivalent term in the United Kingdom is dinner lady.
According to the majority of British adults (54 percent), the last meal of the day should be called 'dinner'. In fact, only four in ten Britons still refer to it as "tea", while just one in twenty (5 percent) call it 'supper'.
Interestingly, Welsh speakers have one interchangeable word for the midday and evening meal – 'cinio' – along with 'te' for tea and 'swper' for supper.
It's usage has nothing to do with being lower class for I attended a private school and was taught that the three meals of the day were breakfast, lunch and dinner and there were two snacks known as morning and afternoon tea. So that's the usage of the word in Brisbane.
Why do Irish people refer to lunch as dinner and dinner as tea? It's not just the Irish though. In the north of England, they say the same.
Dining Etiquette
In Scotland, dining times can vary widely, ranging from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at sit-down restaurants to the wee hours of the morning at pubs or fast food joints.
The terminology around eating in the UK is still confusing. For some "lunch" is "dinner" and vice versa. From the Roman times to the Middle Ages everyone ate in the middle of the day, but it was called dinner and was the main meal of the day. Lunch as we know it didn't exist - not even the word.
Across England as a whole, the majority (57%) call it “dinner”, while just over a third (36%) opt for “tea”. The remainder either call it something else (including 5% who say “supper”) or answered “don't know”. However, despite dinner's overall victory, the data shows there are clear geographical differences.
dinner lady in British English
noun. British. a female cook or canteen worker in a school.
For many, the obvious answer was to simply change it to, "dinner lad" or "dinner laddy".
A wedding reception is a party usually held after the completion of a marriage ceremony as hospitality for those who have attended the wedding, hence the name reception: the couple receive society, in the form of family and friends, for the first time as a married couple.
The word “meat” is used in Scots to mean food in general and this saying, both literal and metaphorical, means in the former sense that a hungry man will soon find food, and in the latter, that you will find whatever it is that you need, when your need is great – that great want, of anything, makes one focus on the ...
For the uninitiated, cludgie is a Scottish word meaning “toilet”, although probably not to be used in the politest of companies.
In most of the United Kingdom (namely, the North of England, North and South Wales, the English Midlands, Scotland, and some rural and working class areas of Northern Ireland), people traditionally call their midday meal dinner and their evening meal tea (served around 6 pm), whereas the upper social classes would call ...
It's "good evening", or the non-time specific "g'day". Contributor's comments: I grew up in Brisbane, and have never, heard 'Goodnight' as a greeting.
McDonald's research found that 55 per cent of Australians called the company Macca's and they have submitted the word to the Macquarie Dictionary for consideration. It's an Australian habit to abbreviate names. So Barry becomes Bazza, Warren becomes Waz and anyone whose surname begins with Mc is likely to become Macca.
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe someone as jammy, you mean that they are very lucky because something good has happened to them, without their making much effort or deserving such luck. [British, informal]