As a Southerner, I can assure you ta-ta is used down there (or up there as you prefer) as well. We children had dinner and tea, and maybe supper. Dinner was the mid-day meal -- after all it was served by dinner ladies at school. But then again we had Sunday lunch. I think I'm still totally inconsistent over this. Whichever feels like the main meal of the day is dinner and the other one is lunch or tea as the case may be.

Bingley

Bingley