When I was growing up it was breakfast, dinner, supper. Nowadays it's breakfast, lunch, dinner. As we understood it from growing up in the rural South, the use of "dinner" for lunch was a holdover from earlier times when most folks were farmers and had their biggest meal of the day at noon.
It's what I grew up saying, but I left it behind when I got all cosmopolitan. *g* Lots of folks around here still say dinner/supper, including my sister.
Here, a poem for you involving "supper". Kinda.
"Off to bed," said Sleepy Head. "Let's wait a while," said Slow. "Put on the pot," said Greedy Gut, "We'll sup before we go."
*takes a bow*
That's something my mama used to recite. :)
Also- roly poly. I would turn over the big flat rocks of our flower garden to find them, and if you touched them (they are hard, not icky) they would roll into a perfect little ball. Very fun when you are 6 and have little entertainment but imagination. *g*
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Date: Jul. 18th, 2007 03:00 am (UTC)It's what I grew up saying, but I left it behind when I got all cosmopolitan. *g* Lots of folks around here still say dinner/supper, including my sister.
Here, a poem for you involving "supper". Kinda.
"Off to bed," said Sleepy Head.
"Let's wait a while," said Slow.
"Put on the pot," said Greedy Gut, "We'll sup before we go."
*takes a bow*
That's something my mama used to recite. :)
Also- roly poly. I would turn over the big flat rocks of our flower garden to find them, and if you touched them (they are hard, not icky) they would roll into a perfect little ball. Very fun when you are 6 and have little entertainment but imagination. *g*