Dinner or Supper?

[Bob_Bytchin]

What do you call the meal between lunch and bedtime? Dinner or suppper?

I call it supper, except on Sunday's...then it's dinner.

 

[peachykeen]

if it's something quick like a frozen meal or something grabbed on the go, it's supper.

If I've cooked and we sit down to eat together, it's dinner.

 

[Guest]

 

[Soblue]

I've never used the word supper in my life.

I was under the impression it's a regional term. Does anyone north of the Mason-Dixon line use it?

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

I was under the impression it's a regional term. Does anyone north of the Mason-Dixon line use it?

Supper is the word my family in Maine uses. Never heard them say dinner. My family in Texas uses dinner. In our house, we use both...but along the lines of what Peachykeen said. A formal meal is dinner....just an everyday meal is supper.

 

[acitore_vuli]

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[SpiceCake]

It's always been dinner here. We have dinner. Other people have supper!

 

[Ice Cold]

I don't know, I don't usually eat any meals after lunch. I'm more of a snacker.

 

[Soblue]

Supper is the word my family in Maine uses. Never heard them say dinner. My family in Texas uses dinner. In our house, we use both...but along the lines of what Peachykeen said. A formal meal is dinner....just an everyday meal is supper.

Well, ya learn something new every day.

See why I love this place, so informative! Thanks Bob

 

[freshrope_69]

Re: Dinner or Supper...



How I love these regional polls:

I guess with all the places I have been or lived, I am very comfortable with using Dinner...

Yet, my family uses: Supper

On top of that they use dinner in place of lunch. Try as I might, there is no way they will switch. So, I continue to love them as they are. LOL!

 

[Chuckus]

if it's something quick like a frozen meal or something grabbed on the go, it's supper.

If I've cooked and we sit down to eat together, it's dinner.

What she said.

 

[Never]

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.

dinner, supper (nn.)


A dinner is the main meal of the day, whether served at noon or later in the day; it is also a ceremonial banquet or any full-course meal. A supper is the evening meal, especially if dinner is the midday meal, or a fund-raising or communal meal such as a church supper, or a light repast, especially after the theater or in the late evening, as in a midnight supper.


The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press.

 

[LukkyKnight]

I've never used the word supper in my life.

I was under the impression it's a regional term. Does anyone north of the Mason-Dixon line use it?

Absolutely, if being born in Chicago and living in MN counts.

 

[Guest]

My observation is that it's a class thing in UK.

Dinner-Upper
Supper-Middle
Tea-Working

I usually say dinner, but if I'm with a company, whatever he or she may refer to will be my vocaburary.

 

[Olivianna]

I think they use this in the Holy land, hence 'The Last Supper'?

OMG, you're brilliant.

 

[District Line]

If it's still mooing I like to call it Daisy.

 

[kotori]

What do you call the meal between lunch and bedtime? Dinner or supper?

"Guinness," actually.

I call it supper, except on Sunday's...then it's dinner.

No, this is true for me. But on Sunday, it's in the mid-afternoon, not evening. Northeast, NYC metro area.

Funny thing around here (Central Kentucky-Southern Indiana), a lot of the country folk think "lunch" is a highfallutin' word, they call the midday meal--a sandwich and bag of chips--"dinner."

 

[Jim_Henson]

Damnit, whens tea

 

[kotori]

. . . whens tea

lol. say it fast and it almost sounds like something else.

 

[SlowMoe]

Does is really matter what you call it?

SlowMoe

 

[lovetoread]

Dinner.

Its always been dinner to me.

 

[Guest]

its supper for me!! my mom tried to teach me better but she failed on this subject!!!

 

[ksmybuttons]

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.

dinner, supper (nn.)


A dinner is the main meal of the day, whether served at noon or later in the day; it is also a ceremonial banquet or any full-course meal. A supper is the evening meal, especially if dinner is the midday meal, or a fund-raising or communal meal such as a church supper, or a light repast, especially after the theater or in the late evening, as in a midnight supper.


The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press.

This has always been my definition...I didn't know I was so proper.