In the vein of the "Pop vs Soda" discussion:
"Dinner" or "Supper"?
(For those that are unfamiliar with either term, I mean the evening meal)
Personally, I say "dinner" and I'm an Ohioan (since region of the country is likely the divide, although I hear both of them fairly equally around here)
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 Nov 8 2005, 2:24 am
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Nov 8 2005, 2:32 am
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Plagu3r
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I live in Philly and I'm used to both those terms.
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But which do you generally use? (or do you really say both of them 50/50?)
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I say dinner.
My grandma says "supper" for lunch and "dinner" for dinner. It bugs the living hell out of me. I also say soda, my friend says pop. My mom hates it when people say pop. lol | |
I think your grandma is right actually shades. Most people don't know but that is proper english language. Lunch isn't even suppose to be in are language. Down with the improper!
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Lunch isn't even suppose to be in are language. Down with the improper! You can't be serious :D ...Anyways, Supper and Dinner actually have two different definitions, I'm too lazy to look it up, but you can look it up on dictionary.com and I think their "popular grammar errors" area of the site is I think where I saw that they were different. | |
I never thought of it, I use both interchangeably.
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I believe the primary difference is in degree. Supper refers to a light evening meal whereas dinner refers to the main meal of the day, whether taken at midday (as in the Mexican tradition) or in the evening (as in the American tradition).
Lunch is simply an abbreviated form of luncheon which is an afternoon accompanied by a light meal. I prefer to use dinner, though I often avoid any specific term. For example, I will usually ask "What do you want to eat tonight?" as oppossed to "What do you want for dinner/supper?". | |
i'm from new jersey and i say both. it depends a little on the context, though. if we were going out to a restaurant, i'd say that we're "going out to dinner". but if we were eating at home i might ask "when are we having supper?" i might say dinner in that second case, but i don't think i'd ever say supper in the first case. i think i say "dinner" more, but my parents say "supper" more.
i'd imagine that the terms do have different meanings, but it seems like a lot of people don't know the technicalities so they're used somewhat interchangeably. | |
I'm a "dinner"-saying Ohioan.
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Green Lime, go figure, I thought my grandma was just retarted.
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Reminds me how everyone in Texas says "Coke" for any kind of Cola product. You go to a restaraunt and say you want coke they'll look at you funny and ask, "What kind?".
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Thats dumb, thats like how my friend was, and he lives in michigan.
He asked me if I drank coke, I said, uh yeah, I drank coke before. He goes, "what kind?" I reply "What the fuck are you talking about? I drank coke." He says, "What, are you stupid? Coke makes alot of different kinds of pop." I say "Then you should have asked me, have you drank anything by the Cocacola Company fag." He replys "No, I said it clear, everyone else would have understood me, your just weird." Me, "Get the fuck out of my house you retard." | |
If your talking about "dinner/supper" meaning the meal at about 5pm...
I say TEA... >BRITISH< | |
So, wait... You say "tea" for a meal?
I knew "tea time" was a big deal over there, but I always just assumed it meant more of a snack kind of thing... Some tea and some cookies or crumpets, or whatever...lol | |
Actualy, us brits are weird, what someone says in the south east of england is totaly different to what someone says in the north. Us brits are very diverse.
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Yeah, I guess I should have known that... I notice that sometimes, some of you don't even understand each other...lol
Of course, it's the same way here, just that we're spread out more... | |
I don't say soda, or pop... I say soda-pop. =D
Me, "Brittany, go get me a soda-pop." Brittany, "What kind?" Me, "Didn't I just tell you a soda-pop?!" | |