It depends where you live

Im not saying it in a derogatory way ana and if you live in the north east you will no doubt recognise the dialect.

I don't like any dialect but I know it exists and many people are proud to use it, there is a society for the Geordie dialect. I try to use basic English especially where my DGD is listening and for work I must use correct English. I enjoy hearing the Geordie accent on Catherine cookson films for example.

Many people are very proud that they speak 'geordie' and I have no problem speaking it at home, what I don't like is 'Geordie slang' and bastardisation of the English language in any form.

Not all of us 'in the north' say those things, ethel! Blimey, talk about generalisation...

In the north we say
dinner=lunch
tea=evening meal
supper=snack at about 9oclock.
bait=packed lunch
saamich=sandwich
the toon=Newcastle
me man=husband or partner
wor lad=husband or partner
wor lass=wife or partner
the bairn=child
the babby=the baby
the netty=the toilet
gannin to lundun=going to London
the polis=the police
and so on......

Oh well found elegran. I love that word. I had to go through one to meet my best friend, that word means going out to play in the sun, to me. 'See you at the twitten!'

My mother had taken U and Non U to heart so we said sitting room, sofa, napkin, lavatory but NEVER belly or bum or pardon. We ate (and still do) breakfast, lunch, tea and supper. We called our parents Mummy and Daddy and had a Granny, a Grandma and a Grandpa. My own children all said the same.
These things become "our" way speaking and divide the world into Us and Them.

At my parents' home we had a breakfast room which was attached to the kitchen which had a lovely cool pantry.

We also had a box room which was full of junk

I believe men going down the mine had a pasty which was savoury at one end and sweet at the other.

Janerowena Definitions and origins of twitten (I did a google) -

Early 19th century: perhaps related to Low German twiete 'alley, lane'.

Perhaps alteration of Middle English twichen.

It has been stated that twitchen derives from old English twicene meaning cross ways or fork in the road.

In my lifetime, depending on where I have been living, I have made samwige,es <----?, in 4 different guises for men going to work. Bait, North East. Snap, Midlands. Pieces Scotland. Sandwiches, South Coast

Just wondering if "Elevenses" is a regional term? Seems to have died out now!

Breakfast, dinner, tea. Dinner in the evening only if we're having friends round. Supper is crackers or toast. High tea is usually cold apart from any pies involved, but is more substantial than afternoon tea.

Pudding, front room (we don't have a back one, but my mother called her two rooms the front room and the sitting room), loo, sofa or couch, snicket.

Sandwich with a pronounced d, but sarnie when it's got fishfingers in and butty when it's bacon or chips. And we just go to London. We have a hall, but I was brought up to call it a passage.

Strange how you have to think hard to recall what you say without thinking.

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea (but only on Sundays)
Supper
Pudding (never sweet/dessert)
We go up to London
We go through the cut (alley/passage)
We have a hall
Toilet
Anyone who hasn't had a chip buttie has to try one, don't forget the tomato ketchup. Fattening but extremely yummy.
I am not a fan of the fish finger sandwich (definitely with the d pronounced).

I think it comes from 'tween the two'.

No it isn't, it's a twitten!

An alley or shortcut is a snicket.

Nowadays I sit on a sofa but in my childhood it was a settee which, for some reason, even then, I didn't like.

I go into the living room and sit in the sofa.

Path between buildings was a twitten (said as twitnin' )

The other was 'a biting on piece'. The snack you give to children who are hungry and will have to wait for the meal.

I was putting on weight rather quickly (story of my life) with my first pregnancy and the GP said 'Too much snap'. Lincolnshire for snack, I discovered.
What about names for the short cut between buildings? I've got snicket, jennel and ginnel.

I grew up with a kitchen and a scullery, I suppose nowadays it would be a utility room but it was a lot bigger than my U room!

My MiL's kitchen contained the sink, Rayburn, table and chairs and an easy chair and was where everyone congregated. I suppose that continues today.

The back kitchen was a lean to off the kitchen with another sink, an old gas cooker for when the Rayburn put it's parts, washing machine, a clothes line for tea towels and 'smalls' which she'd never have hung outside. A utility room I suppose.

They always had dinner at one o'clock sharp. FiL would come home when he was working so the meal had to be on the table promptly. They considered it to be part of his being a white collar worker who could take a longer break. My father wasn't white collar and worked all over the place so he took a packed lunch and we had dinner in the evening (This meant with school dinners I had two main meals!). I married 'up'!

Modern working regimes don't really allow for eating a main meal half way through the day which is probably why most younger families have lunch and then dinner in the evenings.

For us, in Ayrshire, a 'piece' was a snack. A 'playpiece' was a snack (could be biscuits or fruit - anything you could consume quickly) we took to school to eat at morning break, or 'playtime'. A 'jeely piece' was a jam sandwich - or, of course, 'sangwidge'.

Bags on one side of Brum a piece is a slice of bread and butter.
When we got engaged I was asked "where are you holding it up at" and I wondered what had fallen down! Apparently it meant where are you having your wedding reception.

In Brum a crumpet is a pikelet. A "Paki shop" used to be any corner shop and not an insult or sign of racism. My Pakistani boss (not in Brum) told me that if his brother's business failed he would simply open another Paki shop.

Supper and dinner are interchangeable.
Tea is in the afternoon and never hot.
Pudding, never anything else.
Sitting room
Loo or lavatory, never toilet but could be bog!
Always go 'up' to town, whatever or wherever the town.

Let's just not go into what different types of bread are called in different places!

phoenix the back kitchen was where all the food prep took place. The kitchen was where everyone congregated we call it the living room today. If you were very lucky there was a parlour at the front of the house, only used on high days and holidays. DH still calls our kitchen the back kitchen. 'You can take the lad out of........

I was about to post that sandwiches were sangwidges when I was young and anyone pronouncing the d or the ch was showing off (Sussex, Hampshire) but I see that Marelli claims it is posh Fife.

It was
breakfast
lunch (midmorning cuppa and biscuit, juice for children)
dinner (midday, hot meal and pudding such as apple pie and custard)
tea (something like Welsh rarebit, and cake)
supper (hot drink)

Snacks a rarity, occasional ice-cream on Sunday from the van, if it came round, sweets almost unknown.