• __nobodynowhere@startrek.website
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    Apparently, dinner originally meant breakfast from the Old French “disner”, meaning to break the fast, essentially de-fast.

    Supper is from the Old French “soper” which just means soup-er

    What a world.

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      23 hours ago

      Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about the French, and it’s been a long time since my GCSE French lessons but wasn’t petit-déjeuner breakfast? Is that a more modern invention?