At 07:22 PM 9/2/97 -0400, Spook37211@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 97-08-29 20:14:10 EDT, alcon@earthlink.net (Allan Connell)
>writes:
>
><< In the middle ages, "luncheon" was the word for liquid lunches. It was a
> combination of the words "noon scheken", or noon drinking. In those days,
> a large chunk of bread was called lunch. So if you ate bread with your
> munchion, you had what we still today call a luncheon.
> >>
>Interesting.......
>Where did the term 'nooner' come from?
>
>Ray
>
>
Ray,
I dun'no. I suppose it is the contraction or alteration of the "noon is
sooner". Probably came from the Irish imigrants who prefered "nooner" over
"later".
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Regards,
Allan
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