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Phil C.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 6:58 pm
Post subject: Re: meals |
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On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:56:14 +0000, Robin Bignall
<docrobin@ntlworld.com> wrote:
| Quote: | It may be. WIWAL in the Midlands, my mother and I would have a cooked
dinner in the middle of the day, and tea at teatime -- five pm or so
-- while we listened to Children's Hour on the wireless. Tea would be
a cuppa plus a cake or some fruit. When my father came home from work
he would have a substantial meal, his only cooked one of the day, at
about seven, and he'd call that 'supper'. My mother and I would
accompany him by having something simple such as Welsh rarebit or
sardines on toast. It was not unusual for a working class housewife
to cook twice in one day back in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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My mother always used to do a cooked breakfast - various ways of
cooking eggs - a cooked dinner in the middle of the day for her and
the children (who came home from school) and a cooked tea in the early
evening. My father ate his dinner, which was mainly cooked separately,
a bit later. Sundays typically had a a bacon and egg breakfast and a
full roast dinner in the middle of the day - but something as posh as
tinned salmon for tea, followed by tinned fruit and evaporated milk.
Bread had to be eaten with the fruit - presumably a hangover from the
days of wartime scarcity.
They were of wc origin but aspiring lower mc - I think cooking
"proper" meals came to to be seen as a sign that a woman didn't go out
to work. Convenience breakfasts were associated with mothers working
for pin money - rather common.
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Phil C. |
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apprentice
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:35 pm
Post subject: Re: meals |
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Uzytkownik "Giles Todd" <g@prullenbak.todd.nu> napisal w wiadomosci
news:3hq1p19qrq43igtk8voj6e6jgaabgp54v4@4ax.com...
| Quote: | On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 22:39:54 +0100, "apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl
wrote:
This group is CULTURE/Language, REMEMBER?
PREACH, Brother, PREACH! Tell us where we have gone wrong, and
forgive us our sins.
Oh, read novels as well. Lots of them. They will show you how
English is wrote and edditted nowadays, and the better ones might give
you a clue as to how English is used in various manners in many
different social, ethnic, political, local and national contexts.
Demanding a single precise definition for any word you might encounter
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This is not what I am pointing at. On the contrary, I have just wanted you
to explain my a certain aspect of the meaning of a word I encountered.
Besides, as you are native speakers you can provide me with the context I
need.
Regards,
Pawel
| Quote: | is not a good way of learning a language. Languages rarely work like
that.
Giles
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paulafrank1213
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| I would just like to share a piece of trivia I learned from my college professor. The difference between dinner and supper is that dinner is an eating time whereas you eat outside the house or dine out. On the other hand, supper is the term to be used when you eat inside the house. For an instance, I had dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant today but for tomorrow I'll just stay at home and have my supper. |
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