I must be "Of that certain age" as I remember most of these terms.
However, I still use and hear some of them here in the South.
"store-bought." Sometimes we say "sto' boughten"; used it just the other
day talking about making clothes for DD as she was so hard to fit (and
Please) " in sto' boughten" ones.
everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors.
Am at he moment trying to get DH to consent replacing badly worn 25 year old
carpet. The ol' man hates change.
"picture show," but I considered "movie" anaffectation.
We said, "movin' pi'ture show"
"percolator."
One can hardly even buy perk ground coffee. It is all drip ground - as for
Mr. Coffee.
lumbago
this is now "spinal stenosis" ; "slipped 4th lumbar disc"; and other more
specific conditions.
I know, I am having experience with practically all of them !!
"supper." Now everybody says "dinner."
We still use Dinner for the main meal of the day, and lunch or supper for
the other meal.
i.e. most days we have lunch at mid-day and dinner in the evening. On
Sunday, we have dinner at mid-day and supper in the evening. But you are
correct. To avoid confusing as to when dinner is to be served, most people
just use lunch and supper, unless it is a big formal dinner.
But then, here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, there were in my
memory, people still speaking Elizabethian English. In the 1950s, I had a
student who had been raised back of the mountain by his grandmother and used
phrases such as " holp you tote yo poke"
(help you carry your paper sack)
Louise in Central Virginia
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