Can I consider both noon and evening meals as dinner?    So, I have been thinking about the conflicts among the meanings of Lunch, Dinner and Supper. I have found many satisfying answers. But the thing is, I am from a South-Asian nation where people have meals 3 times a day. While we have light food for morning meals, we have heavy food both at noon or in the afternoon and in the evening or at the night(Normally 9:00 pm - 12:30 am). We do have light meal in the evening but we don't consider it as a proper meal. In that case, can I consider them both as dinners? Sorry, my English skill is very poor.... .
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I've seen cases where a noon-time meal is referred to as dinner, and the evening meal is called supper. There's also lunch around noon followed by dinner in the evening. Is there a particular difference between dinner and supper, or a circumstance where lunch becomes dinner?
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Two days had passed since she had last eaten or slept.   Or should it be:     Two days have passed since she last ate or slept.   Or something else? And why? The combinatorial explosion of past simple, past perfect and present perfect is killing me.
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Is it better to drink water during or after a meal?  Clearly, there are different opinions about this topic.   In this , it is mentioned that drinking water immediately after or during a meal should not make much difference, and in fact doing so actually aids digestion in general.  On the other side, this  says exactly the opposite:     Remember not to drink too soon before or after a meal as the water will dilute the digestive juices.  Drink water an hour after the meal to allow the body to absorb the nutrients.   Which approach is better for health?
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Two friends who have unpredictable lunch hours agree to meet for lunch at their favorite restaurant whenever possible. Neither wishes to eat alone and each dislikes waiting for the other, so they agree that each will arrive at a random time between noon and 1 pm, and each will wait for the other for 15 minutes or until 1:00. What is the probability that the friends will meet for lunch on a given day?
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Is 2/3 always, sometimes or never plural?  E.g.     1a) 2/3 of the pizza were eaten.     1b) 2/3 of the pizza was eaten.      2a) 2/3 of the visitors were men.     2b) 2/3 of the visitors was men.   I feel that example 1 could go either way but example 2b sounds very wrong.  Is there a rule for this?
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Which is correct?     1 Three day's work      2 Three days' work      3 Three days work   I would probably guess (2) is right, since the work belongs to the three days ("three days of work"). But I'm not sure. Would it be different if it was only one day?
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Just read somewhere about this puzzling puzzle:  What is the difference between:   I'm doing a twenty four-hour shift tonight. I'm doing a twenty-four hour shift tonight. I'm doing a twenty-four-hour shift tonight.   I know number 1 is 20 x 4 hours. Number 2 and 3 is the same as far as I know. Is this true?
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When I'm talking to a person in opposite time zone and the person greets with "Good morning" or Good evening/afternoon as per his time, is it ok to reply "Good afternoon" (as per my time-zone) when he said "Good Morning", and similarly replying as per my time zone, at other times?
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If I ate from 7:00 until 7:30am,   At 7:10, could I say      I am eating for 10 minutes?  At 7:40, could I say      I ate for 30 minutes, 10 minutes ago?
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I was wondering if someone could explain the subtle difference between these sentences:  1) Monday should be fine.  2) Monday would be fine.  This is in the context of someone asking if they could help me out on Monday instead of on Sunday. I am a little confused about the difference between the usage of 'should' and 'would' here. Both seem to fit. I personally seem to prefer 'should' but I can't explain why. Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
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Imagine you are organizing a lunch and want to ask someone (your friend or sister, etc.) to come over and help you prepare the meal. Which one of the following words works properly in the self-made sentence below? For me they both work correctly:        Can you come over a bit early to help me with lunch?   Can you come over a bit earlier to help me with lunch?
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I'm looking to get some of my coworkers together and start a lunch time, casual, D&amp;D game. Has anyone done this - is there a practical way to do this?  Our lunch breaks run for about 1 hour, but I can see being able to make one weekly break run for 1.5 hours for most of us.
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What is the meaning of "Call it a day/night". I have heard people saying "I am calling it a day". I tried to find out the meaning in dictionaries, but could not. Please let me know your answers.
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No offence!! Please take it just for knowledge. I heard one of my friends saying Americans can eat Chinese but Chinese can't eat Americans. He said so for fun, and everybody was just laughing. But I want to know how the English language comes into the picture.   One thing, I guess, is that there is a game of plurals. Where Chinese in singular and plural has same letters, but not American?  P.S Of course, it was about Chinese food.
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People are sometimes said to be a morning person or a night person. I also know that the term for something related to night is "nocturnal".   Is there a specific word for a person who sleeps during the day and is active at night? I’m looking for an elegant word for night owl.
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Is there any difference between     I am not having a lunch tomorrow.   and     I am not having lunch tomorrow.   This is a follow up question of : .
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As the question states, is kimchi still safe to eat after spending a few hours unrefrigerated, the time it takes me to get home ?  I'm mostly concerned because my commute home involves time in a heated bus