What's in a Name? Notes on Cultural Differences

[<] [>]  by Julie Carriker

7 January 2013

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Drabble Challenge #107

Prompt: notes

"Is this what you usually have for tea," she asked, stirring sugar into her cup, "a few cookies?"

"Well no," he admitted. "Teatime is generally a light meal. I often have a sandwich, perhaps cheese and crackers."

"Doesn’t that spoil your supper?"

He looked at her curiously. "Oh! You mean American supper, or dinner, as some people call it."

"Uh, yeah…" she replied, perplexed. "Supper is supper… And I guess dinner is supper also. What else would I mean?"

"Until we left England," he explained, "supper was a snack before bedtime… late in the evening."

"I see! Tea IS supper!"

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