Lunch

For those who dine in the evening two new words are needed. First, for a meal taken around mid-day, the name used is lunch. (This is both a noun and a verb. For very formal and old-fashioned speakers, the noun is luncheon – but this is rarely heard nowadays.) The second new word that is needed is a name for a light meal eaten around four or five o’clock in the afternoon, to help the rich bridge the gap between lunch and dinner. This is called tea, and usually consists of delicate small sandwiches, biscuits and cakes.