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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 06:56 PM
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Regional question: Is your late meal called dinner or supper?
Or something else, like post afternoon victuals?
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 06:58 PM
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1. Both
Depending on whether it's me or my parents, or whoever. I call it Dinner, my Mom calls it Supper... :shrug:
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 06:59 PM
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2. Supper, unless it's formal or special in some way. Then it's dinner.
But such a dinner could be at noon, too. As in "Sunday Dinner".
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:49 PM
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17. yeah, I think that's right for me too
I had no idea it was a regional thing
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 08:12 PM
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23. Same here
"Dinner" in English simply means the biggest, most formal meal of the day. And that can be lunchtime (Sunday Dinner) or evening.
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Rising Phoenix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:00 PM
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3. my Irish mom calls it supper
my siblings and I all call it dinner, with an occasional slip up....

of course my mom still calls jeans dungerees

and soda, tonic

hehe
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:05 PM
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6. I like your mom.
:hi:
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Rising Phoenix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:08 PM
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9. yeah
she is pretty cool....I am working on finding her a boyfriend...lol
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querelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:00 PM
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4. Dinner Is Early Evening
Supper is a meal around midnight.

Q
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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:05 PM
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5. Dinner.
occasionally I will hear it referred to
as supper.

:hi:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:07 PM
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7. Dinner, but supper on Sundays
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:10 PM
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11. Is that because you eat early on Sundays?
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:26 PM
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15. No, it's the weirdest thing...
growing up in my mom and dad's house, the evening meal every night of the week was always called supper, but since I've been an adult I only call the Sunday evening meal supper. That may even be a highfalutin' term for something that often consists of cold pizza and bridge mix. Obviously, I use the term "adult" loosely :)
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:07 PM
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8. FOOOOOOOD NOW!
:rofl:
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:11 PM
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13. Makes a person hungreeeee, don't it?
:hi:
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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 09:31 PM
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27. You are a nut, KW!
But you're a lovable nut!

:rofl: :pals:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:06 AM
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40. mmmm nuts!
:rofl:
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siouxsiecreamcheese Donating Member (534 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:08 PM
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10. always called it supper
I'm from NY and I still call it supper down here in SC. Dinner seems too fancy-shmancy.
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:10 PM
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Supper -Dinner was lunch
It took me quite a while to get used to that when I left home.

:hi:
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 11:03 PM
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29. yep
me too
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 11:49 PM
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37. Thank the goodness!
I wandered all over and noone ever understood that. Unless they were from the hills of Carolina.

Where did you pick it up?

:hi:
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 11:54 PM
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38. "Down east" North Carolina.
Southeast of Raleigh. When I go home to see the family, I still get confused about which meal my Mom is talking about. Mom: "We're having meatloaf for dinner." Me nowdays: "Lunch dinner or supper dinner?"

:hi:

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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 12:06 AM
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39. Too dang funny!
I'm up in Ashe county(NW corner of NC). I have had the same problem all my life :D

:toast:
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:10 PM
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12. supper
:hi:
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 08:01 PM
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21. ~
;-)
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 11:13 PM
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30. right....
there's a right way and a wrong way, and the right way is 'supper'.

:rofl: :hi:
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:22 PM
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14. I think it's more country vs. urban
My ex-wife, who was raised on a farm, always called the middle meal dinner. My family always called the late meal dinner.
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:27 PM
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16. That's the way it was in my family.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:55 PM
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18. I was raised with supper.
"Dinner" is more formal, like "going out to dinner," "Sunday dinner," or "Christmas dinner," or it signifies the main (noon) meal of the day.

My parents were raised in rural Western Minnesota (my father on a farm and my mother in town); Mom says the farmers and farm hands used to have breakfast, forenoon's lunch, dinner, afternoon's lunch, and supper. Dinner was the big noon meal that fueled all that hard work.

My father's aunts always called any meal that was not breakfast, dinner, or supper "lunch", no matter what time of the day it was served. If you visited at 7:30pm, you were offered "a little lunch". (Cheese sandwiches, cookies, coffee - something like that.)

When I was a kid (I was raised in the Minneapolis area), we had breakfast, lunch, and supper, with the "dinner" exceptions noted above.

My husband, who was also raised in the Minneapolis area, had breakfast, lunch and dinner. His mother was raised in Illinois.

I've converted him to "supper." :D
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Goblinmonger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 11:34 PM
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34. I was raised in rural Eastern North Dakota
and had the same distinctions as your parents (where in Western MN?).
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:57 PM
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19. Dinner usually. Sometimes supper. It's pretty variable.
:)
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:58 PM
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20. Both. But a formal meal can never be supper, only dinner. n/t
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 08:09 PM
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22. Supper or Dinner or both
:shrug:
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 08:14 PM
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24. Either
They are interchangeable to me.
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S n o w b a l l Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 08:28 PM
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25. Dinner
I guess it is a regional thing. I never heard it called supper in LA, but in IN, my mom does and many others around here. I still call it breakfast, lunch & dinner.
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 08:31 PM
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26. Usually Dinner.
Sometimes just "food" - as in "I need some food" or "Let's get some food."

I never call dinner supper. It seems to be a regional thing, like "pop" versus "soda."
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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 10:58 PM
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28. Dinner
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suzbaby Donating Member (906 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 11:13 PM
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31. Dinner. Always dinner.
I've never really used the term supper. I'm from Alaska....am I weird? :shrug:
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 11:19 PM
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32. Dinner. n/t
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 11:32 PM
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33. Ever wonder why there's a name for a meal between breakfast and lunch,
but none for the one between lunch and dinner?

I demand the official recognition of Dunch.
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Goblinmonger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 11:35 PM
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35. We call it lupper
of course we call the evening meal supper, so ymwv
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NaturalHigh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 11:47 PM
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36. I usually say dinner.
My folks still say supper. Either or.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:15 AM
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41. Dinner - from Chicagoland
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:19 AM
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42. Either
Dinner is a more formal term here.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:31 AM
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43. I go out for dinner, but my daughter has to be home in time for supper.
Unless she's eating out with friends, then I just whip myself up some grub.

So what region is supposed to say "grub"?
.
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:36 AM
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44. Something else:
Abendbrot or Abendessen

(My wife is from Germany, so we speak German at home)
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 04:44 AM
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45. for us -- supper is about time.
dinner is in the evening -- supper which can be a big elaborate affair happens earlier.

like coming home from church to a roast or ham in oven.

everyone takes their time getting the meal ready -- rolls, taters, cole slaw, corn -- that's supper.

5:00 or later -- that's dinner.
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 05:54 AM
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46. Dinner. only Dinner.
But if someone yelled "Supper's ready!", I'd understand and come running.

:hi:
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DuaneBidoux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 08:05 AM
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47. Supper
I grew up in Kansas now live in Houston. My family always has called it supper (my dad grew up in Arkansas, my mom in Kansas). It seems to me however that many around me call it dinner.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 08:08 AM
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48. I don't really know any more. When I grew up, it was supper.

Then, with an influx of people from other states and/or the influence of the TV, you heard,

Breakfast, lunch, dinner

instead of

Breakfast, dinner, supper.

One of my sibs refers to "the noon meal" to avoid confusion. I kid you not.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 09:21 AM
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49. Supper. Dinner is a big, mid-day meal.
My wife calls it tea-time.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 09:22 AM
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50. Both. n/t
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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 11:40 AM
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51. Growing up in a blue collar family near Pittsburgh in 50s-60s
It was supper served around 4-5 or if dad was on day shift(8-4) at the steel mill as soon as he got home. Dinner was that rare meal you went out for, usually when you were traveling. And if I wasn't drinking milk I'd have pop with supper. And lunch when I was out of school and we were at the cottage was always at noon.
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 11:41 AM
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52. dinner or "eten tijd"
Edited on Fri Jun-08-07 11:41 AM by helderheid
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 12:37 PM
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53. Eten tijd?
That's just Dutch for "time to eat." I am about an hour from
the Dutch border, and go there frequently, but I've never
heard that used. Where are your folks from that they use such
an expression?
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 12:51 PM
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54. My husband is Dutch
:hi:

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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 12:53 PM
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56. Ah, that explains it!
Well, in that case, groetjes, en Nederland is er nog!
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 12:55 PM
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57. Geweldig! Zit jij in Belgie?
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:06 PM
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59. Nee, in Duitsland, misschien een uur van de grens
Tien km van Düsseldorf
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:12 PM
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60. Wat is jou Nederlands goed, zeg!!
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:29 PM
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62. Maar natuurlijk!
Ik ben zo vaak in Nederland, dat is allen ardig, dat ik ietsje Nederlands
zo leren, meent jij niet?
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 12:53 PM
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55. Either. We use the terms "dinner" and "supper" interchangeably.
:hi:
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 12:59 PM
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58. I call it "bourbon"
But maybe that's just me.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 01:27 PM
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61. Dinner
breakfast, lunch, dinner.

On holidays "dinner" became the big afternoon meal, and an evening meal later on became "something to eat".
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