I was always told it's dinner if it's a proper cooked meal and so you are dining. Otherwise it's lunch or tea. Packed lunch not cooked School dinners usually cooked Dinner ladies cook the food When you go for lunch it's usually a sandwich Dinner is usually a proper meal Basically if you have a cooked meal in the middle of the day that's dinner, if it's at the end of the day, also dinner. The other one is lunch / tea. AFAIK it comes from back when people could only afford one proper cooked meal every day. Weekdays that was in the evening, weekends it was during the day. Hence the confusion. Fountainous enough for you sweats?
Fair assessment I'd say.. though I was looking/hoping For at least a thousand word appraisal as to it's origins backed up with historical data and facts..
It's font of all knowledge, not fountain. Or is it that midlanders say fountain and us northerners say font (correctly)?
It's actually fount of all knowledge. Font is what you type on your computer. So just for Ruff, I am the Times New Roman of all knowledge
Indeed. Pretty sure font is some relation to fondue, the French hot cheese melting thing, cos they used to have to melt the printing press plates to reset the fonts whenever they wanted to write something different. Not sure how that relates to wisdom or knowledge tho'
In all fairness I thought fonts were also fresh water springs.. Near where my folks live they have the fonts de laguar which are fresh mountain springs.. I actually believe both terms to be correct..
Actually that's wrong .. Fonts de laguar is the lepur colony fonts at fontilles are the mountain springs..
I know, just having a bit of fun. Pretty sure both font and fountain come from the Roman water features, which were all called 'fons'. The ones that spray water then became called fountains, whilst the ones that were just bowls of water became called fonts, and are now used by Catholic priests to try and drown babies. Hence fount of knowledge, as knowledge is infinite, and font of wisdom, as wisdom is limited by human understanding. Probably.
Isn't that just cos the French for fountain is fontaine? And whilst the place is in Spain it has a French name for some reason. Like Fontainebleau in Paris.
Lots of similarities between French Spanish and Italian languages.. Loads of words in all three are very similar.. They are calle the fonts of fontillies.. They filmed a bounty advert there in the 90's under one of the water falls.. I have a pic of me there on my fb page looking just like the advert holding coconuts..
