Yankee/Southern Terms

[pdub]

Jeet?

[38P]

Dinner, lunch and supper

How about the usage of dinner or supper for the evening meal?

It's simple . . . Dinner is the largest, most formal non-breakfast meal. It can be either at noon or in the evening.

Application: If dinner is in the evening, the smaller noon meal is lunch.

If dinner is the mid-day meal, then the smaller evening meal is supper.

Theoretically, two large meals of equal size and/or formality on the same day could be dinners, while two smallish meals of equal size and informality could possibly be referred to as lunch and supper, without referencing any dinner for the day. The better usage would be to always call the largest, most formal meal dinner, though.

Any other use of these terms is imprecision based on profound ignorance of or indifference to the English language.

[NewEnglandRaceFan]

How about the usage of dinner or supper for the evening meal?

How about yankee dime for a kiss on the cheek?

Acting up or acting out?

thought for a mealtime down south they just rang a bell.. or is that just W.V.

[tardis454]

Hoedon minnt, gawteh git sum fixins, mokes ann baar..

[Pumpkin]

It's simple . . . Dinner is the largest, most formal non-breakfast meal. It can be either at noon or in the evening.

Application: If dinner is in the evening, the smaller noon meal is lunch.

If dinner is the mid-day meal, then the smaller evening meal is supper.

Theoretically, two large meals of equal size and/or formality on the same day could be dinners, while two smallish meals of equal size and informality could possibly be referred to as lunch and supper, without referencing any dinner for the day. The better usage would be to always call the largest, most formal meal dinner, though.

Any other use of these terms is imprecision based on profound ignorance of or indifference to the English language.

Alrighty then, once again you prove the saying opinions are like assholes...

[silver_bullet]

Originally Posted by The Outsider
It's simple . . . Dinner is the largest, most formal non-breakfast meal. It can be either at noon or in the evening.

Application: If dinner is in the evening, the smaller noon meal is lunch.

If dinner is the mid-day meal, then the smaller evening meal is supper.

Theoretically, two large meals of equal size and/or formality on the same day could be dinners, while two smallish meals of equal size and informality could possibly be referred to as lunch and supper, without referencing any dinner for the day. The better usage would be to always call the largest, most formal meal dinner, though.

Any other use of these terms is imprecision based on profound ignorance of or indifference to the English language.
Alrighty then, once again you prove the saying opinions are like assholes...



OUCH!!

[pdub]

Any other use of these terms is imprecision based on profound ignorance of or indifference to the English language.

I too, beg to differ on the declaration above. If imprecision is disallowed, there would be no people in the whole world.

And on the more specific terms of local dialect, let's examine the word, "Venchly."

Exactly how much time will it take to do something or to be somewhere venchly? And is "directly" a longer or shorter period of time than venchly? I'll be there directly, and venchly I'll clean up that back lot where the kudzu has covered up that parts car I'm saving for "later."

[68scott385]

I had a step mother that was always "fixin' to". Fixin' to go to the store, fixin' to cook dinner, fixin' to clean house.

Old man never caught on that she was fixin' to clean out the house while he was at work.

[Karberator]

Hoedon minnt, gawteh git sum fixins, mokes ann baar..

Where's the bait special?

[Big Dave]

Where's the bait special?

They be fixin' to put that on the sign next.

[pdub]

They be fixin' to put that on the sign next.

And don't forget the ammo.

"Ammo go git me wunna dem catfish dinners at d beer store."

[oletrux4evr]

OK, so some relative terms here......we call woven cloth bags filled with cattle feed, among other things, 'gunny sacks'. I think most in the South call them 'burlap bags'.....or 'tote sacks'.......others out there??

[173rdherd]

OK, so some relative terms here......we call woven cloth bags filled with cattle feed, among other things, 'gunny sacks'. I think most in the South call them 'burlap bags'.....or 'tote sacks'.......others out there??

picksack

in Chicago a couch is a davenport or divan, a porch is a stoop, and there ain't no such thing as a fire ant

[DanStokes]

picksack

in Chicago a couch is a davenport or divan, a porch is a stoop, and there ain't no such thing as a fire ant

I think you mean "Far Aint". That's in Maxton (100 miles inland). The Wilmington accent is more genteel, sort of like Savannah.

Dan