To hate hearing the word SUPPER

[newnameoldme]

Even at my ripe old age I don't know exactly when or what it refers to.

It makes me cringe at the pretentiousness whenever I hear it used. Only slightly less if elderly posh person!

I'm with you op.

I also hate when people refer to other as guys and if someone says awesome it makes my teeth itch.

Posh evening meal (either at restaurant or in friend's dining room with other guests = Dinner
Casual evening meal in kitchen or in front of telly = Supper.

Yes! Agree with this.

Absolutely share the hate of the misuse of the word "awesome", though. The Grand Canyon is awesome. My new shoes, however lovely, are not.

Dinner is the posh/ "correct" thing to call an evening meal, isn't it?

So yanbu to dislike hearing it uses to mean that.

Supper is a smaller/ later meal than dinner. Sometimes instead of, sometimes as well as.

Love the bit about Jesus having his main tea earlier on!

I also hate when people refer to other as guys and if someone says awesome it makes my teeth itch.

'makes my teeth itch' is far worse.

DPILs call the evening meal supper
I call it dinner
But if the kids are having it, early evening, it is tea
Supper to me is a late snacky type thing eaten after your dinner/tea eg a couple of slices of toast or a bowl of cereal

Supper here. Growing up abroad tea as afternoon cuppa with cake or biscuits. Nothing posh or poncey about us as a family (or maybe I am poncey and I just don't know it...cue existential crisis) as my grandmother calls the evening meal tea.

I've always called the main evening meal supper. Sorry if that offends you OP

YANBU

Awful word.

My MIL has started calling her dinner/tea 'supper'. I just don't understand why she has started saying it.

Supper is like a crumpet or toast before bed

Also in Yorkshire - lunch is dinner and dinner is tea

I used to call it supper unless it was formal. I move, and had just got used to dinner every night when a friend invited me for tea. I ate first as she asked me to come at six and I'd have been starving on just cake and biscuits.

I've just eaten supper with my husband.
We eat dinner if the meal is more formal with three or more courses.
Tea is either a drink or a treat mid afternoon with scones and finger sandwiches or crumpets.
Lunch is a midday meal.

North east working class
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper - 9.30pm eg two cracker biscuits, cheese and cup of tea

We have always used supper for a later evening meal. The terms I dislike are dinner instead of lunch and tea in place of dinner. Tea is at 4pm!

Scotland. We always had breakfast, lunch and dinner (or tea, as in ´yir tea's oot!')

A posh elderly English neighbour invited us for supper. I couldn't understand why she wanted us to come for a cup of tea and slice of toast us our jammies!

We settled on lunch instead :-)

Although I now say breakfast, lunch and tea....and then supper, growing up, we always said breakfast, dinner, tea, supper.
At school it was always dinnertime and I guess that comes from the era when school lunch was hot and either eaten at school or when kids went home at midday along with the men back from work to have dinner.
Then they'd just eat bread and jam and cake and tinned fruit etc for tea.
Supper then would be hot milk and toast cooked on the fire.

Me: Breakfast, Dinner, Tea (although I call Tea, Dinner Dunr when I remember)

Husband: Breakfast, Dinner, Dinner (well it kind of sounds like Dunr as he is from Glasgow)

And we just don't care, although sometime we call Dunr: Lunch just to be confusing. We both know what we mean and funnily enough so does everyone else that we know and spend time with.

Who cares. Its just Fud

I hate the word 'horrid'. DH uses it and I can't stand it.

Growing up, supper was a light snack before bed if you were still hungry. Tea and toast normally.
Not posh in the slightest.

squidgey

DH hates certain words.

Like,"up the duff"/"expecting" etc. "My wife is pregnant." is in his opinion the only acceptable way to tell anybody that we're expecting DC2."

It's always been breakfast, lunch and supper for me - growing up and now as a parent. I do have quite a posh background. Dinner is something you go out for.

As a bit of cheese on a biscuit before bed, fine. As the main evening meal ugh! It's so David Cameron kitchen suppers, kill me now.
And I am a southerner.

But in my head dinner is posher. "Time for dinner - tonight's dinner is lasagne and salad." It's all wrong. You put on a posh frock for dinner.

NW working class upbringing:

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper (pre bedtime snack e.g. toast or cereal)

Now:

As above but will generally say lunch when at work as I've picked it up from my colleagues and I say dinner to mean going out to eat if it is somewhere a bit fancy. If it is a nandos because noone can be bothered cooking it is still tea or "going for food".