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When did we start saying "breakfast, lunch, and dinner" instead of "breakfast, dinner, and supper"?

Asked by occ (4176points) November 15th, 2009

In old books, people often refer to the mid-day meal as dinner and the evening meal as supper. When did we switch over to start calling dinner lunch and supper dinner?

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