What do you call your evening meal? Tea or dinner?

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5th May 2022

RESEARCHERS from the University of Leeds have launched a big project aimed at sharing and recording the different dialects (local form of a language) across England.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a team from the university travelled around the country to record the different language and lifestyles of different communities.

Now, a new digital survey has been created so that anyone can take part. The project is part of the Great Big Dialect Hunt, which encourages the public to explore dialects from Cornwall to Cumbria and also share new words and phrases from the 21st century.

Do you brew, mash, soak or wet a cuppa to have with your roll, bun, bap or cob?

Researchers want any suggestions of things you say where you come from, in the hope they can “preserve today’s language for future generations”.

You can explore the project at dialectandheritage.org.uk.

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ojpolls · 2 years ago

I call my last meal dinner as it is widely used by the new generation.

max1234 · 2 years ago

Tea- just sounds like the drink, so in my opinion, I chose dinner. Dunno about you but my mum doesn’t have tea in the evening

bunk123 · 2 years ago

I dont call it either I call it supper

candyapple · 2 years ago

Neither! I call my evening meal supper

dottypop1 · 2 years ago

I have called it tea since forever.

loldoll20 · 2 years ago

Even tho I put dinner I dont I call it supper! I agree with candyapple and bunk123 🤪 🌮this was my supper

pumpkin135 · 2 years ago

I mainly use tea as that Is just what my family calls it but I sometimes use dinner too

bluecat18 · 2 years ago

Dinner is the easier word to say as tea can also mean the drink. Also, dinner is the more commonly used name.

mxm0 · 2 years ago

I definitely call it supper... but I said dinner anyway. Tea is the toast or cake you have at five o'clock if you're being a bit old-fashioned. I have Tea on my birthday.

superdork · 2 years ago

In my family, we call the main meal dinner and the little snack after tea, or supper! Tea and supper can also be used for a small dinner, or that we have late in the night! :)

katkid10 · 2 years ago

My family have a mish-mash of both.

heebee · 2 years ago

I’ve always called my evening meal dinner. Tea is just the drink in our family.

sweetfishy · 2 years ago

Dinner is a winner😄

toodles · 2 years ago

To be honest I would normally say whichever came to my mind first. It really doesn't bother me

sushiroll9 · 2 years ago

I call it Dinner if it’s cooked and a good size ; tea if it’s smaller and less of the food is cooked.But sometimes I say whichever one I think of first.

octopi · 2 years ago

Tea is the drink as well so I just call it dinner. It just sounds right to me.

chaem17 · 2 years ago

I call it dinner because for me, tea is more of an afternoon snack or break, whereas an evening meal is a proper main course and hot food, so I call it dinner.

ugoose86 · 2 years ago

I would call it dinner🍗🍕🍙🥒🍖🍗🍔🥪🥚🥬🥬

ugoose86 · 2 years ago

I think would call it dinner🍗🍕🍙🥒🍖🍗🍔🥪🥚🥬🥬

ugoose86 · 2 years ago

for me it would be called dinner🍗🍕🍙🥒🍖🍗🍔🥪🥚🥬🥬

ugoose86 · 2 years ago

i vote it being called dinner🍗🍕🍙🥒🍖🍗🍔🥪🥚🥬🥬

iloveelly · 2 years ago

I call it supper.

squeezjoos · 2 years ago

Tea just sounds wrong to me and my parents call it dinner however their parents call it tea

P.S. hi octopi it is m

squeezjoos · 2 years ago

My dinner yesterday was fish and chips
Some people call lunch dinner

squeezjoos · 2 years ago

I agree with chaem17

dolphin26 · 2 years ago

I call my last meal dinner, because tea is more of an after school snack.

djdoggy · 2 years ago

TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA TEA

uniquestar · 2 years ago

supper

olivew · 2 years ago

TEA FOREVAAA

olivew · 2 years ago

@djdoggy -yesssssssss

allegrag · 2 years ago

I call my last meal dinner as to me my parents have been saying it since I was born so it feels more right to me