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Dinner or tea?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I admit it's very confusing and tend to agree that we all get it right - and wrong. Schooldays dinner was midday, now it's in the evening. My Mum called the evening meal tea, I've always called it dinner, but unless you move in the sort of circles that look down their noses if you get a word wrong, according to them that is - call it what you like.
There are several telling words in that definition...originally, majority and classes. Basically, we all call meals what we do according to our upbringing. However, given the original meaning as a midday meal, one cannot be 'wrong' to call lunch 'dinner'...most people do. However, if one has any aspirations of a social nature one had better stop forthwith!