It depends where you live

So it's either sanwidge or sandwhich

How else Ana?

I am now beginning to hear voices in my head "don't say pardon". "We all know that you can Sundayname but whether you may or not is another thing". "All joints on the table will be carved Sundayname" There was that time when I was quite small when we moved to a part of the country where bath and grass, etc., were pronounced with a short "a". Boy did I get a lot of Sunday names then - I just wanted to fit in!

Thank heavens it really doesn't matter in the same way anymore. When I think of it most of my friends have mixed accents and word usage from moving around the country.

Or a sort of fudging of the two...

No wonder the terms butty and sarnie are so popular!

What's a Sundayname?

School dinner = school lunch
Ginell (don't know how to spell it) = short pathway through to main road
Duck = dear
Pouffe = foot stool
Mardy ar** = moody
Petal = chum/friend
Charley's dead = petticoat showing

Or sangwich (awfy well-spoken Fife)

If you were usually called Ana but your mother called you by your full name "Annabelle" when you had done something wrong or not very impressive we would call Annabelle your Sunday name.

Ah, I see. Good job mine's always been very short then!

My mother had so many jobs lined up for me on her day of rest I think my Sunday name was Cinderella.

Here in New Zealand breakfast and lunch are the same as the UK. In between those two meals, there is morning tea, the equivalent of elevenses but not the same as second breakfast. There is also afternoon tea – a mid-afternoon break with a snack and drink which might be tea or coffee for adults and juice, milk or water for children. What I would call supper – a family meal in the evening – is invariably called tea but does not usually include tea for drinking. A more formal evening meal with guests or at a restaurant is called dinner.

The other break in the working day is known as the smoko – an opportunity for a cigarette or, I suppose, a pipe. This is dying out as increasing numbers of people don't smoke these days. Nevertheless, the term smoko is still used for a chance to sit down and relax for 10 minutes.

Sarnies are two slices of buttered bread with any filling be that jam or bacon.

Lunch (cold food)
Tea (4pm cuppa with cake)
Dinner (cooked meal, followed sometimes by dessert)
Supper (toast, or often cereal)

sandwiches - of course you pronounce the d! - how else would you say it?

Dinner = evening meal
lunch = mid day light meal
pudding = afters (when at home)

What about casserole/stew/lobby/scouse?
bap/bun/scottie/bread roll/barm cake/ ?

Lunch and luncheon are considerably different although both are eaten some time around midday.

James, we have a lounge and toilets too - though obviously not in the same place!

We have sammies at lunch time - but I have no idea why!

Our evening meal at home is tea, you go out for dinner!
Sarnies except for chip butties.
We have a front room, a kitchen/diner and loos.

DD in Oz has :
Brekkie
Morning tea
Lunch
Afternoon tea
Dinner
Lounge Room
Dunny/toilet

She was brought up with:
Breakfast
Lunch
Tea
Dinner
Sitting room
Loo

I, on the other hand was brought up with :
Breakfast
Coffee
Lunch
Tea
Dinner
Lounge
Lavatory

I wonder what terms our grandchildren will use .....

I was brought up with

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
And not much in between so as not to spoil my appetite.
We had a living room and a front room.

Now we have

Breakfast
Coffee - or second breakfast if sausage rolls or Danish pastries are involved.
Lunch - a light meal or dinner if we're out and decide to 'Eat' at lunchtime.
Dinner - unless we've had our main meal in the middle of the day when it becomes tea - a light snack with bread and too much cheese.
Supper - just occasionally - a snack of generally cheese and crackers.
We have a sitting room and a dining room.

And we have samwidges! And eat far too much!

Charleygirl High tea"! That to me evokes some ham and salad, a small piece of lettuce the odd tomato,cucumber and some salad cream.

However "You must have some bread with it me duck". Tinned fruit salad with evaporated milk to follow and a pot of tea.

"Pudding" is what you eat after dinner, whenever that is.
Lounge/livingroom? Lounge sounds too posh for me as does "sofa" instead of settee.

Gracesgran I also want to know what "Sundayname" is.

Up in the Potteries a "Lobby" is their version of Lancashire hotpot.

Maybe samwidges is why we have sammies Nfk!

JaneA, don't know where James came from

Our "Sundayname" included our full middle names too. My DDs have no middle names so we used to make some up when they were being told off!

I was wondering who James was!
NellieMoser, I remember those high teas well, that you describe , at the house of a lovely relative, we ate exactly those foods every time we went there!
My cute little grandson says ' more sammidges please' so we now call them that ourselves.

I still don't understand why my very Welsh grandmother referred to "the back kitchen" as if there might be a front one somewhere!

After eating our evening meal, Mr P goes through to the lounge and sits on the settee.

I go through to the sitting room and sit on the sofa It's a wonder we ever see each other

I'm sure he only says it to try and wind me up!

Ana, I haven't had a chip butty since I was about 20, but remember them as heavenly! The chips have to be either from the fish and chip shop ( preferably in Yorkshire) or cooked in the chip pan by your your Mother.
Fish finger butties are something else, slightly above heaven! I still have one now and then, the fish fingers must be fried and in butter.I am salivating now like one of wossnames dogs.

Just to be different....... I go into the lounge and sit on the sofa.