Do you say supper or dinner?

[Shell Beau]

I say supper. Is that a southern thing? I don't know if it is, but that is what we say here in the south!

[deadparrot]

1. I use both.

I'm kind of in the middle of everything, geography-wise, so it could be regional. :shrug:

[GirlinContempt]

2. Dinner

They used to be both commonly used

[Shell Beau]

4. Aha! Wasn't sure if it was southern or not! I guess not!

[GirlinContempt]

8. At least,

in old timey Canada, you had both dinner and supper.

[terrya]

Lunch is at noon. Supper is at night. I don't know what dinner is

[luvLLB]

17. LOL..dinner is at noon, and supper is at night...

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Dinner.

I currently live in the south, but hail from NE. I have friends in NE who say supper, however. I wonder if it is more a generational thing?

[Shell Beau]

5. Maybe so!

[billyskank]

6. Neither. I say tea.

That's a working class English thing.

[tjwmason]

12. Do you also have dinner at noon?

Which is an ideal use to confuse foreigners.

[sniffa]

7. depends what day it is

monday - saturday, it's suppah.

sundays are dinner (and it's eaten in the afternoon).

[CottonBear]

13. Sunday dinner (afternoon). Mon-Sat = suppertime. n/t

[tjwmason]

9. Mostly supper

Books could be written on the various usages in England.

For me, supper is a lighter informal evening meal; if it's a dressy formal occasion (usually later in the evening) it's dinner.

[Shell Beau]

11. Yeah, if I am going out, I'll say dinner.

[eyepaddle]

16. That is the dictionary definition I am most familiar with,

I prefer the term supper myself. Force of habit I suppose. My dad calls lunch dinner. I think that was a midwestern farm usage.

[Guy Fawkes]

10. both.

[SarahB]

14. Dinner, but....

when I grew up in Nebraska, my family used to say breakfast, dinner, and supper instead of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Seems weird now though, but it's definitely a regional thing.

[Mizmoon]

15. Lunch at noon, dinner in the evening, what the heck is "supper"?

:)