Supper or Dinner?

[sweat209]

It is country word.I would never ever use it.

Same has other country words like I'm fixin or I reckon.

Fixin' - Intending. "I'm fixin' to go there next week."
Reckon - Guess, believe, suppose. "I reckon it doesn't make any difference."

Yes it is country.


The word supper in proper use comes before dinner .


In the country you have super a big meal and than dinner the light meal .

Supper is a name for the evening meal in some dialects of English. While often used interchangeably with "dinner" today, supper was traditionally a separate meal. "Dinner" traditionally had been used to refer to the main and most formal meal of the day, which, from the Middle Ages until the 18th century, was most often the midday meal. When the evening meal became the main meal, it was referred to as "dinner"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supper

[Toxic Toast]

Originally Posted by PDX_LAX

The only people I know who say supper are my relatives in Ohio. My relatives in nearby Kentucky and every other American I've talked to says dinner.

When I lived in Kentucky, everyone called the last meal of the day supper. In fact; my mother when she first moved to Kentucky from Michigan invited some new in-laws over for dinner, thinking they would come over around 6 or 7 in the evening. They showed up around noon for lunch. Every one of them.

Speaking for myself, I have heard a smattering of the word supper everywhere I have lived. It is not a word that exists in my vocabulary.

[Johnny C]

Just to add to the confusion; why do some people call their lunch pail a "dinner bucket?"...

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Johnny C

Just to add to the confusion; why do some people call their lunch pail a "dinner bucket?"...

The same reason some people would call a lunch box a lunch "pail", I guess.

Never heard of carrying one's lunch in a pail!

[portlanderinOC]

I usually say supper, but they both mean the same thing to me.