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For the following sentence: "The average dinner time in the U.K. for those who call their evening meal dinner has been found to be at 7.47pm."
Do we use 7.47 or 7:47 in the lead? Cheers! - Brandon (MrWooHoo) • Talk to Brandon! 01:47, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Lightweight, superficial, subjective. Why bother? Go read the McMillan web page cited here, bring in some of that. Go read the background notes to Pride and Prejudice, find out how dinner was.
PS Spanish eat their main meal about 2:30pm, followed by a siesta. They may eat a light supper about 10pm, maybe not.
-- Unbuttered parsnip ( talk) mytime= Mon 07:00, wikitime= 23:00, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
Some random fields to explore
I will try to think of more if found useful. SovalValtos ( talk) 22:02, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
This is by no means a trivial subject - like Nancy Mitford's 'U' and 'Non-U', 'dinner' is a great shiboleth of class in Britain at least. My family are from the Midlands; Solihull - which is quite an up market suburb of Birmingham. We had dinner at noon. At school we had 'School dinners' served by 'dinner ladies'. My older brother, on a school trip involving other schools - maybe a debating competition or a cadet field day, got talking to another boy from a 'posher' school, and the talk turned (goodness knows why) to the subject of school meals, and how much they cost. My brother explained that every Monday we handed over our 2/6d 'dinner money' for the week. The other boy was very puzzled, and a long and involved discussion at complete cross purposes ensued (neither knew of the other's usage). 'So you have a meal AFTER school do you, how extraordinary?' 'No, we have dinner at dinner time' and so on. It gradually dawned on my brother that the other called his evening meal 'dinner', and this is what posh people did, and he was showing himself up as a lower class than his companion. 'Oh - but *we* call that 'LUNCH'!' was the final repost. My brother learnt a life lesson in that moment. 109.144.215.33 ( talk) 22:42, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
what's on dinner 118.103.138.98 ( talk) 12:54, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
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For the following sentence: "The average dinner time in the U.K. for those who call their evening meal dinner has been found to be at 7.47pm."
Do we use 7.47 or 7:47 in the lead? Cheers! - Brandon (MrWooHoo) • Talk to Brandon! 01:47, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Lightweight, superficial, subjective. Why bother? Go read the McMillan web page cited here, bring in some of that. Go read the background notes to Pride and Prejudice, find out how dinner was.
PS Spanish eat their main meal about 2:30pm, followed by a siesta. They may eat a light supper about 10pm, maybe not.
-- Unbuttered parsnip ( talk) mytime= Mon 07:00, wikitime= 23:00, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
Some random fields to explore
I will try to think of more if found useful. SovalValtos ( talk) 22:02, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
This is by no means a trivial subject - like Nancy Mitford's 'U' and 'Non-U', 'dinner' is a great shiboleth of class in Britain at least. My family are from the Midlands; Solihull - which is quite an up market suburb of Birmingham. We had dinner at noon. At school we had 'School dinners' served by 'dinner ladies'. My older brother, on a school trip involving other schools - maybe a debating competition or a cadet field day, got talking to another boy from a 'posher' school, and the talk turned (goodness knows why) to the subject of school meals, and how much they cost. My brother explained that every Monday we handed over our 2/6d 'dinner money' for the week. The other boy was very puzzled, and a long and involved discussion at complete cross purposes ensued (neither knew of the other's usage). 'So you have a meal AFTER school do you, how extraordinary?' 'No, we have dinner at dinner time' and so on. It gradually dawned on my brother that the other called his evening meal 'dinner', and this is what posh people did, and he was showing himself up as a lower class than his companion. 'Oh - but *we* call that 'LUNCH'!' was the final repost. My brother learnt a life lesson in that moment. 109.144.215.33 ( talk) 22:42, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
what's on dinner 118.103.138.98 ( talk) 12:54, 17 December 2022 (UTC)