Iowans now have accents...

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

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Breakfast, Dinner, Supper

Those are the usages I have always seen.

Interestingly enough, dinner originally meant breakfast.

Word History: Eating foods such as pizza and ice cream for breakfast may be justified by the fact that in Middle English dinner meant "breakfast," as did the Old French word disner, or diner, which was the source of our word. The Old French word came from the Vulgar Latin word ·disiúnâre, meaning "to break one's fast; that is, to eat one's first meal," a notion also contained in our word breakfast. The Vulgar Latin word was derived from an earlier word, ·disiêiúnâre, the Latin elements of which are dis-, denoting reversal, and iêiúnium, "fast." Middle English diner not only meant "breakfast" but, echoing usage of the Old French word diner, more commonly meant "the first big meal of the day, usually eaten between 9 A.M. and noon." Customs change, however, and over the years we have let the chief meal become the last meal of the day, by which time we have broken our fast more than once.

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Originally Posted by RandomFan

That would be me as well. I don't know if that was an old farmer thing or what, but in my family dinner was the noon meal and supper was the evening meal. Lunch was what most people would call a snack.

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Farming families brought this from northern Europe. The biggest meal of the day in rural Germany is the noon meal so using the word dinner for it is the conotation of it being the main meal.

My grandparents did this and they were of Danish / low German background. Incidentally, my grandparents who farmed but were of English decent did not say this.

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Originally Posted by clones26

Soda is for baking, end of discussion. Its POP. You must be from Mennesoda

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pop is a sound, baking soda is for baking

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Originally Posted by JUKEBOX

Breakfast
Lunch
Supper or Dinner

Isn't this how it goes?

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By definition for supper it is dinner noon then lunch 4pm then supper 7pm

So what I have figured out is that Supper is used when you are country and rural and Dinner is used when you are not. Isn't that correct?

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Originally Posted by thatguy

So what I have figured out is that Supper is used when you are country and rural and Dinner is used when you are not. Isn't that correct?

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I can detect little or no accent in most major TV network anchors. I believe that must mean I have little or no accent.

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Originally Posted by cyclone1975

I can detect little or no accent in most major TV network anchors. I believe that must mean I have little or no accent.

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I know a Des Moines news anchor. He has a voice like a more defined James Earl Jones and the delivery of a behind the back Steve Nash pass.

Most Iowans do not have accents and talk like the people on T.V., (I've been told this be people from California New york, Florida, and minnesotta who came to visit Iowa) there are some though that do. In the North they speak like Norweigans. in the south there are some that sound like Missourians somewhat though it is state wide in rural areas.
Of course itss Pop not coke though sometimes soda. People in the south say coke because coca-cola was invented in atlanta and it was the drink of preference for them
Lastly people who do not work on a farm only have 3 meals so its breakfast lunch dinner. people on a farm usually have 4 meals so its breakfast dinner lunch supper.

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Originally Posted by cybear52

Most Iowans do not have accents and talk like the people on T.V., (I've been told this be people from California New york, Florida, and minnesotta who came to visit Iowa) there are some though that do. In the North they speak like Norweigans. in the south there are some that sound like Missourians somewhat though it is state wide in rural areas.
Of course itss Pop not coke though sometimes soda. People in the south say coke because coca-cola was invented in atlanta and it was the drink of preference for them
Lastly people who do not work on a farm only have 3 meals so its breakfast lunch dinner. people on a farm usually have 4 meals so its breakfast dinner lunch supper.

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people on tv learn to talk like that since it "fits everyones accent."

When i came here i noticed a big difference in the way people talk from chicago, it sounds a lot like when i was in tennessee

Everyone speaks with an accent. Most Iowans (along with the newscasters) speak with a midwestern accent. There is no unaccented English (or any other) language.

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Originally Posted by cigaretteman

Everyone speaks with an accent. Most Iowans (along with the newscasters) speak with a midwestern accent. There is no unaccented English (or any other) language.

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The Queen of England disagrees.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

sup·per http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum/...pic/Image1.gif(supÆÃr), n.
1. the evening meal, often the principal meal of the day.
2. any light evening meal, esp. one taken late in the evening: an after-the-theater supper.
–adj.
3. of or pertaining to supper: the supper dishes.
4. for, during, or including supper: a supper party.
[1225–75; ME sup(p)er < OF souper, n. use of souper to SUP1]
—supÆper·less, adj.

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Originally Posted by Marc936

people on tv learn to talk like that since it "fits everyones accent."

When i came here i noticed a big difference in the way people talk from chicago, it sounds a lot like when i was in tennessee

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That's probably because Chicago has a pretty thick accent of its own:

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Originally Posted by bstegs

Where are you from in Iowa? I do the same thing. Long A in "baagels" and long I in "siick".

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I draw the flat "aa" sound out more than the "ay" sound (like bagels) but I draw both out.

From Mitchell County (Osage). Grew up 2 miles from the MN border.