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Someone else says supper? I was embarrassed to admit it but where I live it's supper. Dinner is Sunday or something fancy in a restaurant or fancy dinner at someone's home. But I live in New England and we seem to be different.
I think the use of "tea" to mean supper is a northern thing. Just the same as, "The clock were slow." (which I just heard.)
When I was a kid here in northern England, it was breakfast, dinner, tea. Supper was something you may have late on while watching the telly........a snack. Nowadays folks tend to say lunch instead of dinner. Tea is still the evening meal though.
Using 'were' instead of 'was' is also a northern English thing. For instance, "when did you last see your lost watch?" Answer, "it were in the kitchen."............
When I was a kid here in northern England, it was breakfast, dinner, tea. Supper was something you may have late on while watching the telly........a snack. Nowadays folks tend to say lunch instead of dinner. Tea is still the evening meal though.
Using 'were' instead of 'was' is also a northern English thing. For instance, "when did you last see your lost watch?" Answer, "it were in the kitchen."............
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Thank you, English Dave. It'd better be bloody good weather!
I was once asked to leave a bar at a US air base for saying "Bloody Hell" quietly to my then boyfriend but was overheard by someone who told the bartender, who then sent for the Manager, i got a surprise when he tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to leave for using bad language. When i look back i realise now that i didn't think at that time that it was actually BAD language as everyone seemed to use it. It sounds so innocent now as the F word has taken over. I must aslo add that many Gay men of that era used to say it with a flourish it sounded great to me.
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Originally Posted by Kobber
Brit in Australia here. Yes, I use it sometimes. "Bloody Hell, it's hot today!", or "Bloody heck, those kids are noisy!"
Sometimes use 'bloody' on its own - "Where did I put the bloody keys?", "That bloody dripping tap is driving me bloody mad!"
I use 'bloody' as a crankier version of saying 'damn'.
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It's pretty common in Australia. I wouldn't even notice if someone said it. lol
I grew up in south-east England. We had breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea was something we had at 4pm ish - a cup of tea, a Golf biscuit, and maybe a slice of Swiss roll.
However, we did have supper on Sunday evening, not dinner. This was because the main meal on Sundays was the traditional roast at lunch time (lamb or beef usually; pork for a special occasion). So the Sunday evening meal wasn't as substantial as it was through the week - baked beans on toast, toasted sandwich - something like that. Hence it was called supper.
Yup, "bloody" isn't considered bad language in Australia and wasn't in England when I grew up there (though I wouldn't have said it in front of my parents or grannies until I was adult).
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I grew up in south-east England. We had breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea was something we had at 4pm ish - a cup of tea, a Golf biscuit, and maybe a slice of Swiss roll.
Hi Kobber, nice to see you posting! Yeah, my first wife came from Kent. It was breakfast, lunch, and dinner in her house. I used to think, "why do they call tea, dinner?"................
Her dad used to make me laugh. He asked me, "do the old women still wear shawls over their heads up there Diave?"I found being called Diave, instead of Dave very off putting....... anyway...... I said, "no they don't." This was in 1973, and he was talking about 30 years previously, when he spent some time in the north of England during the war.
To me, at that time, 30 years previously was ancient history. Now, 1987 seems like yesterday.
Probably because of this thread, but when I checked my utility bill this morning from Npower, one of the first things I uttered was "Bloody Hell!"
However, then I noticed the bit about "we're increasing our prices by an average of 15%", and that's when I went back to my usual ....errr.... some quite severe Anglo Saxon adjectives!
I'd really like to be able to use the term "bloody rotter", but it would sound thoroughly ridiculous coming out in my Baltimore accent.
A British friend informs me that it would be unusual to hear it in a British accent from anyone less than 75 years old.
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