Poll: I have a score to settle

What is it?

  • Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

    Votes: 619 63.6%

  • Breakfast, Dinner and Tea

    Votes: 264 27.1%

  • Or some other weird combination... So PANCAKE!

    Votes: 91 9.3%
  • Total voters
    974
Every morning I wake up and thank the stars I'm not Northern :p. Yet, I do call it tea, almost as much as I call it dinner.

Maybe I should consider wearing a cloth cap and look to buy a ferret.
 
I grew up in Plymouth and its always been breakfast, lunch and tea. Common with everyone I know... So can't just be a Northern thing.
 
Originally, dinner referred to the first meal of a two-meal day, a heavy meal occurring about noon, which broke the night's fast in the new day. The word is from the Old French (ca 1300) disner, meaning "breakfast", from the stem of Gallo-Romance desjunare ("to break one's fast"), from Latin dis- ("undo") + Late Latin ieiunare ("to fast"), from Latin ieiunus ("fasting, hungry").[2][3] Eventually, the term shifted to referring to the heavy main meal of the day, even if it had been preceded by a breakfast meal. The (lighter) meal following dinner has traditionally been referred to as supper or tea.
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Lunch and dinner are the same, so why are people saying they have lunch and then dinner later in the evening? You make no sense.
 
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