re: Do you say lunch or dinner (referring to a meal near the noon hour)

Yes

Noon and evening is lunch and supper.

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It's dinner than supper .... ya I grew up in the country

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This is how my grandparents (farmers in Natchitoches parish) referred to these meals. They and all my great aunt's / uncles. And my mother's family in rural Alabama.

Further, dinner (the mid-day meal) was the main meal of the day. You had any new dishes introduced here. Supper was simply leftovers from dinner.

The old country folks never used the word lunch.

And that is the way it was in the rural south.

I believe it depends on your age, where you grew up, your current business/ social environment.

I grew up hearing "dinner" for the noon meal and "supper" for the evening meal.

Mostly, it is "lunch" for the noon meal now.

lupper is the meal about 2 pm

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You can have dinner for supper or dinner for lunch but you can't have lunch for supper

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You can have breakfast for dinner.

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As an old man, dinner and supper are the same. Lunch is mid day.

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Same for me.

I hired a young kid from Tellico once, though, who told me that dinner was just late lunch. I wonder if the varied definitions of "dinner" have a regional influence.