With tea it's not difficult to work out whether you're talking about the meal or the drink, dinner could mean lunch or your evening meal. So in my mind tea makes more sense
Dinner = hot food or salad Tea = scones, sandwiches, cakes, or dinner between 4pm and 6pm (rare)
So I mainly use dinner
I understand the whole 'afternoon tea' thing, it's like when you go to a posh restaurant you book into have 'afternoon tea' which are the things you said.
But there's a difference between afternoon tea and an actual meal which is dinner.
I think it comes from the days when the poor could only afford one big hot meal, so the kids would get their school lunch and the husband would come home from work and get a big meal. In the evening, when there were more mouths to feed, it was cheaper to have something light. No idea if that's right, just my tuppence.
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