Thank you very much my friend, I know how those kind of things happen

When I first started work, I needed Imperial AF, Imperial Whitworth, and Metric tools. I suspect most of the young uns get by with Metric here now, but my the tools on my friend's tool stall are almost entirely Imperial, and they sell well
Very handsome Mr P
Did she get invited again?!

Like most things here, class is a factor in how people refer to meal times

Margaret Thatcher famously told a group of school children, "There's no such thing as 'dinner', it's 'lunch'!" Which demonstrates a great deal of historical ignorance on her part!

Historically though, there is quite a lot of politics to the decline of 'dinner', which was once the main meal of the day, among common folk, and it's replacement with 'lunch', which began to happen with the onset of the industrial revolution. Historian Peter Beaumont, (among many others), discusses it at length, in his book
The London Hanged. Historically, among Sheffield cutlers, (and others), there was also another light meal squeezed in between breakfast and the middday meal, a light snack with ale - or just ale!

- called 'Forenoon Drinkin' '