Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Certainly in Yorkshire, though, your big meal in the evening is your "tea", which is a complete change from what began life as "afternoon tea". So a typical Yorkshireman may have a breakfast early doors, and is likely to use "me dinner" interchangeably with "me lunch", but he will always be off home for 'is tea - and never off home for 'is dinner unless at dinnertime.'"
Was pretty much the same when I lived in North Devon, so I don't think it is limited to the M62 corridor.
Anyone else familiar with the term "putting-up"? In my family this was always referred to as the packed lunch as well as the act of making the packed lunchany[/i eatery offer a midday 'Dinner Menu'?
We always had Sunday dinner at about 2 0'clock on a Sunday afternoon, same with Christmas dinner.