Reply With QuoteAsk him ! I hate ambiguity in business matters.Originally Posted by ryanb741
Brendan
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Would appreciate some guidance here. Currently trying to close a large financial transaction and the other party is based in Stockport and I've had some difficulty with elements of the local vernacular he's using. I've been promised funds to hit my account by 'dinner' tomorrow, now I know 'dinner' in some areas of the UK is used to refer to lunch (here we use it to refer to the main evening meal) so what would it mean in Stockport?
Ask him ! I hate ambiguity in business matters.
Brendan
Agree, best to ask. You certainly can't guarantee the meaning these days!!!
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I live close to Stockport and I'd say it means tea time (!).
[Ask him for clarification]
I suspect that means lunch. He probably refers to evening meal as tea.
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My guess would be lunch time.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
Mid-day.
Definitely dinner is lunchtime with tea being dinner. Only time dinner means tea is if you've an inside bog and a patio where you can eat outside. Tea is not afternoon tea, and brunch is also for those posh types.
Yeh. Dinner will be lunchtime.
Times can vary depending on when the whippets get walked and the pigeons fed.
Another vote for lunchtime if he is from Stockport rather than just works there
I'm the opposite - dinner to me is the evening meal, with lunch being midday. Teatime also evening meal. I don't think I'm alone:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...english/dinner
So, I would ask him to the clarify.
Lets not forget supper
RIAC
Or snap time.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
A cup of tea and a slice of parkin. That's grand.
Breakfast - when you get up
Lunch - between 12.00 and 14.00
Dinner (evening meal) - 17.00 to 19.00
Supper - a snack before bedtime.
In addition you can have Brunch, a combination of breakfast and lunch - say 10.00 to 15.00
Southern Softies - put wood in 'ole on the way out!!
I have been learning Southern - cannot believe me mincers, off to bed to play with my Hampton. Looking forward to a cup of Rosie after having a Ruby and a Richard Pitt.
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If he said sorted boss and i'll meet u up the back alley then it's time to scarper.
Supper has always struck me as pretentious, very Hyacinth Bucket, should never be used by a manly man.
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This ^^^^^^
When at school, very local to Stockport, the meal around Noon would be Dinner. "It's Dinner time!"
The meal when you get home is Tea. "Mum, what's for tea?"
Mum? I grew up near Stockport and from memory it was more 'What's for tea our mam'.This ^^^^^^
When at school, very local to Stockport, the meal around Noon would be Dinner. "It's Dinner time!"
The meal when you get home is Tea. "Mum, what's for tea?"
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It just means a bowl of cereal or a sarnie before bed up here! Not a 3 course candle lit meal! ;)
Ahhh, fond memories indeed............
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Or a choccy bar
On my life! In my best Ray Winston "And we gamble respornsebly"
Dinner for me is lunchtime , no one have Dinner Ladies at school oooop norf or remember Victoria Woods Dinner Ladies ?
The wife who is decidedly posher than me has tried to drag my standards back up without much success
Be careful. Although he may be based in Stockport, he could be one of the many, who left the poncy south and migrated to enjoy a better life in the north, so may be speaking with a southern influence.
What do you call a light meal in the mid-to-late evening, then?
Supper was sometimes cereal or toasted tea cake and cheese slice or Tudor crisps in a sandwich. My favourite was weekends, a sausage and HP sauce sandwich.
We were 'appy back in the day!
Better life up North fair enough but surely not in Stockport? lived there 20 years and moved down south.
Was actually up there last weekend and wouldn't move back!
oh and dinner time is mid day meal
In which case he'll be a bitter and disappointed man so watch your back.
That's London for you!
As far as I remember (and I've been away from the north for some time now), dinner is the meal itself and can be eaten at lunchtime or teatime.
It's a hot meal and a pudding.
Supper
a meal consisting of the specified food with chips.
"a fish supper"
As someone who suffers from fiat vowels despite nearly 40 years of living in the home counties I can say with a fair degree of certainty that he is referring to midday or lunchtime.
Come to think of it its not so much me that suffers as those around me. Still, its not quite as strident as the 'professional Geordie' that you come across in these parts occasionally. I usually beat a hasty retreat in case they want to start a discussion on 'The Toon' or being attacked by 'sand dancers' etc.
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Supper tend to be a brown sauce buttie or a dripping buttie out of the frying pan unless the ferrets have got there before me
My next door neighbour once asked me if I was originally from another country.
In a sense I suppose he was right.
Back in the day when I were a lad earning pocket money working with Granddad on his land, we'd go home for our dinner at lunch time of course. Granddad almost always had his pudding first, usually either a homemade crumble or a lovely steamed pudding, before the meat and vegetables course, when I asked him why he explained he got into the habit when rationing was still the vogue and meat was scarce so would fill up with pud first.
I suspect his sweet tooth also had "summat" to do with it.
Could never get my head around bread and dripping although stuffed chine was excellent.
My grandparents uses to eat their Yorkshire puddings (great big rectangular things) first on a plate with gravy separately to their meat and two veg.
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What about second breakfast and elevensies?
Bag 'o chips or slice of bread and dripping.
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"Snap" if you were lucky.
that is what we did when i was yoof at my mum and dads house , thats parental home to the posh types. Left over meat from Sunday dinner ( lunch if you must ) was had on a Monday with chips ( big lumps of spud not french fries )
The old man used to have chips and soup too.......
He confirmed it's lunch time :)
Probably shouldn't invite him to a brunch buffet any time soon.....
Thought so :)
So, "pudding" or "dessert"?
Being a southerner, it's "dessert" for me. "Pudding" is just a particular type of dessert (or main course in some cases).
Southerner born and bred and it's always been pudding (whether or not it's 'a pudding' (which, sadly, it is all too infrequently)). Dessert is reserved for restaurants.
This should be minces. A mincer is something totally different..
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