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Bookmark or Share- Is there a version of brunch for a meal between dinner and lunch?Sometimes people joke by coining a mixture of lunch and dinner/supper, giving lupper, dunch, etc. (As Kosmonaut mentioned.) You might refer to a small afternoon meal as afternoon tea, though to me (American) this sounds British and upper-class. Otherwise you'd probably just call it a snack or a late lunch, if it's bigger than a snack.
- "Lunch" vs. "dinner" vs. "supper" — times and meanings?Being a middle-class middle-aged southern Englishman it is quite clear what I mean: Lunch is the midday meal, tea is taken around 4/5pm and supper is the evening meal. If the evening meal is more formal and substantial it becomes dinner. Lower down the social scale the midday meal is dinner, tea is the evening meal and supper is a snack at bed ...
- prepositions - "support to" vs. "support of" - English Language & Usage ...Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
- Which is higher — "hyper-", "ultra-" or "super-"?These are not English words, but Greek (hyper) and Latin (super, ultra) prepositions.Hyper and super mean exactly the same thing, 'above' -- they're cognates, in fact; Greek initial S went to H, and Y was the Greek letter corresponding to Latin V (or U).
- grammar - "have dinner" vs. "have a dinner" - English Language & Usage ...It's all to do with specifics. I will have dinner ready at 6PM. This indicates a definite event. Dinner is a specific event.
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