British English editing for Yanks

Phyrebrat said:
No No No; tea is made in a pot and poured first into a very thin china cup then milk added (preferably red milk); Dinner is evening meal; and supper is what you eat to make you hungry in preparation for breakfast the next day.

see? SMH

pH
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No, tea is something in a jug in the refrigerator, which is poured over ice in a tall glass. Supper is the evening meal I used to have as a kid, and dinner is the evening meal I have now, having lost use of the word supper by not being around my mother for so many years.
 
I have vague memory of actually having elvenses. I think it might have been when visiting an elderly relative. To be honest, it's actually very civilised. I can't have it now, though, largely because I eat lunch at 11 (I am aware this is weirdly early).

Also, you missed out brunch.
 
My Irish grandmother used to make me elevenses. It was usually mashed banana on bread. :confused:

We always have dinner, but my friend from Yorkshire has tea.
My 'tea' is just hot water in a mug with leaves, but my mother-in-law does high tea on Sundays which is mostly sandwiches and finger food.

Oh and yes, brunch. Yummy.
 
Dinner is the main meal, where you dine. It can be eaten at lunch time, tea time or late evening. Supper is a lighter meal, where one sups. And tea - high tea should involve sandwiches, and ought to include treacled dormouse. Cream tea requires scones, however they might be pronounced.

Unfortunately, despite having spent considerable time in the Untied States of America I never learnt to sling thr lingo, but I do not consider those south of the Mason/Dixon line as 'Yanks', reserving this etiquette for their northern cousins.
 
This is quite true. Yanks are only those who were (or would have been) on the side of the North in the Civil War.

Treacled dormouse? I shudder to ask....
 
TheDustyZebra said:
This is quite true. Yanks are only those who were (or would have been) on the side of the North in the Civil War.

Treacled dormouse? I shudder to ask....
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The Hatter, The March HairBrain, and Alice?

Gee-aw-jah definitely manages some distortions of the language that would not generally be comprehensible in Maine. Mind you, I'm never sure whether to consider NYNY as part of the states ;)
 
Oh, I wouldn't. :D

Ahh, yes, Alice. I've never been able to read those books, for some reason. They offended my sensibilities as a child, and I never got over it.
 
When I visited my relatives in Cumbria, I discovered that supper was a fourth meal of the day, a bit like a high tea but partaken of late in the evening.
 
That was awesome. Striking a blow for warm-beverage freedom!
 
Coffee?

[Actually, I like coffee. It's replaced coke and chocolate for my caffeine hit].
 
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