Originally Posted by
Tartan
Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast and lunch combined is brunch.
Same in my old neighborhood in W.Va.'s northern panhandle. What about "school lunch" and "lunch bucket" and "lunch counter" and "dinner bell" or "dinner pail"? Perhaps it's a country folks/working class thing vs everyone else?
The Bible translates a lot of times as "meal" but the Lord and the disciples shared a last "Supper."
Go back to the nineteenth century and be asked to "sup", "dine", "repast", "bait", "luncheon"....