>>>>>Interesting, in Wisconsin we referred to the evening meal as 'supper' but I've been in the South for so long that we call it 'dinner' now in my family. :o)
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>>>>For small town BC, and I think small town Canada it is
>>>>- breakfast, dinner, supper
>>>>For the city and young people it is
>>>>- breakfast, lunch, dinner
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>>>You hit the nail on the head. It's a rural/urban thing, not a north/south thing.
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>>Good morning Mike. I also think it is a young/old thing too.
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>For me it's another one like the porridge/oatmeal thing. When I was a kid, we referred to breakfast, lunch and supper. Now I refer to breakfast, lunch and dinner. Again, I don't know why. Of course, if I'm going to be completely honest, it's really breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon snack, afternoon snack the sequel, dinner, after dinner snack, and before bed snack.

After my kids saw Lord of the Rings, their cereal they call Breakfast, toast and/or Scotch pancakes they call "Second breakfast" :-)

Lunch is midday

When they get in from school, say up to 6:00 pm, they have "tea" (i.e. main meal)

When I come home I call my meal "dinner"

NOTE "Tea" cf "High Tea", which is the "traditional English 4:00 pm thing with tea (drink) and tabnabs (dainty sandwiches). BTW - we don't do it and everything DOESN'T STOP for tea.

It seems then that where we differ from you colonials is in naming an afternoon/evening meal "tea"