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It's a regional thing. The Southerners in my family say supper. Those from wlesewhere say dinner.
I say dinner - alot of my older family members say supper so it may also be an age related thing.
My grandmother was very insistent that "dinner" is lunch and "supper" is, well, supper. I use them interchangeably though.
I say both for the evening meal, but it always throws me when someone says dinner to mean lunch.
I say dinner. Supper is considered to be a different meal. It's generally what my family jokingly refers to as Linner, the time between lunch and dinner that counts for both.
My FI is from Scotland, and to him, lunch is "dinner", dinner is "tea" and a late-night snack is "supper"!
I say dinner buy my FI is from Sweden he will call lunch dinner as well and sometimes dinner he will call tea it really confused me at first.
Everyone I know calls it dinner except my grandparents. I think that supper is like a halfway meal between lunch and dinner for them!
Ha!! I had to laugh at this post... we've been having a debate over this!! I'm from California, but moved to Texas in 2008. My FH says supper and I say dinner! It's a southern thing to say supper, I suppose ;]
I use them both, but when talking to just family and friends I usually say supper. I don't know why really. I guess it's because that's what we've always said
I would say it can be regional, but not necessarily southern - I'm a southerner and have never referred to it as "supper"...think age also plays a role!
I used to say supper, but when I got to college people started giving me weird looks when I said it, so I switched to dinner. Now I say both, just depends on what comes out! My family says supper so around them, that's what I tend to use. Since you didn't have both for the poll, I didn't vote.
ETA: I'm from the north and my family has always said supper, so not just a southern thing! But I may agree that it could be an age thing.....
I say dinner, but quite a few of the residents at the nursing home where I work say supper, so I think it may be an age-related thing.
I really have no preference but I do say dinner or din-din.
It was always supper when I was growing up. I never thought about this but it has become dinner over the past couple of yrs, but I still chose supper because it brings a smile to my face hehe.
I call it dinner. My grandmother always said that what I call "lunch" is actually supposed to be "dinner" and what I call "dinner" is actually called "supper." I have no idea where that comes from though!
I think i've only eaten supper at grandparents' houses and when visiting people that live in the middle of the country side. Everywhere else is DINNER!
I was born and raised in Vancouver, BC and have always said dinner. But when I moved to Calgary, AB most people here say supper!! I still say dinner though :)
I use both, but always call lunch "lunch". When people call lunch "dinner" I always do a double-take.
Like so many other grandmothers have said, mine always told me that lunch is actually called "dinner" and dinner is called "supper." She was, obviously, from a different generation and she grew up in Oklahoma. I think it might be an age and regional thing.
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What term do you guys use to refer to the meal you have at the end of the day....dinner or supper?
I used to say supper back in the day, but it started sounding weird to me so now I say dinner. Do you think it's a regional thing?