Re: USAGE: Pop, smearcase, kolaches

Jeffrey Henning wrote:
> I didn't realize "supper" was dialectal, but now that I think about it my
> wife calls it "dinner" and I think of it as "supper", but when I look it up
> in the dictionary it doesn't have the meaning I thought it would:
Speaking of dinner: when is dinner for y'all?

I use dinner synonymously with supper for the final meal of the day.
But, my room-mate last year used it for lunch, confusing me at one
point, when he said that he had dinner with his parents, and I looked at
my watch, and it was only 2 in the afternoon or something like that!  He
realized that it was a dialectal usage, tho, and clarified that he meant
"lunch".

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