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| Jul 17, 2006 3:04 am |
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re: It's sunday Morning! |
Debra Shiveley Welch
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I'm a documentary junkie. Recently, I re-watched one on the food in Tudor times and the reference to “dinner” was mentioned.
I’ll have to dig it out to watch again but to the best of my recollection “dinner” is a Middle English word and it refers to the late morning meal.
Here is how I remember it: your average citizen would rise at dawn and skip breakfast. No time, and usually didn’t have anything to eat anyway. Then home to the main meal of the day at around 11:00 a.m. - dinner. Supper was usually a soup or left-overs because, hey, who could afford two meals a day (let alone three)?
So, the “gentry” in later times, enjoyed breakfast, luncheon and then dinner. But, the middle and lower classes (most of us blokes) had to be content with dinner and maybe a light supper.
Oh, and “supper” came from the word “sop” which is where you would take your, I’m sure, stale bread and dip it into the soup for “supper.”
I’ll have to see if I can find out where luncheon and dinner came from. Breakfast is obvious. I'm sure dinner probably came from a reference to dining or eating.
I love finding the origin of words!
Debra - Mitakuye oyasin - We are all related.
Author of "A Very Special Child" - www.whodathunk.orgPrivate Reply to Debra Shiveley Welch (new win) |
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