Calling dinner supper apparently proves you are 'posh' - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life Using this one word apparently proves that you are ‘ posh’ By You Magazine - February 3, 2020 When it comes to dinner time, there’s a great range of vocabulary used up and down the country. Some call it dinner, others refer to it as tea, and then there’s the word supper – which a recent survey has revealed will apparently make you ‘posh’ for using. That’s right; research by Travelodge has revealed that over a quarter of Britons (26 per cent of the 2,000 surveyed) believe that if you use the word supper, you are posh. Equally, if you use the word tea, you are assumed to be from the North. Getty Images The survey saw a clear north-south divide in terms of how the last meal of the day is referred to, with the majority of southerners claiming it should be called dinner, and the majority of those from the north agreeing it’s actually tea. These findings were even divided into specific areas of the country: Birmingham – dinner (49 per cent) Brighton – dinner (82 per cent) Bristol – tea (52 per cent) Cambridge – dinner (64 per cent) Cardiff – tea (47 per cent) Edinburgh – dinner (74 per cent) Glasgow – dinner (74 per cent) Leeds – tea (61 per cent) Leicester – tea (71 per cent) Liverpool – tea (58 per cent) London – dinner (80 per cent) Manchester – tea (67 per cent) Newcastle – tea (66 per cent) Nottingham – tea (51 per cent) Oxford – dinner (70 per cent) Just one in twenty surveyed (5 per cent) called the meal supper, which was later deemed to be a sign someone is posh. So where exactly have these differing terms derived from? Dinner traditionally refers to the largest meal of the day, no matter what time that is. It is derived from the non-Classical Latin word disjējūnāre, which is defined as breaking a fast. Getty Images Tea originally started out as being ‘high tea,’ which referred to snacks and a hearty meal, and was usually served at around 6pm. It is an alternative to ‘afternoon tea,’ that many began adopting for their main evening meal. Supper has always referred to a lighter evening meal, and comes from the old French word souper. It is perhaps the most time specific out of the three. Whatever you can it, we think we can all agree that dinner/supper/tea is one of the best meals of the day! RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved