What does our group name, Dim Sum-mers, mean?
Dim Sum is a word for a type of Chinese food that comes in small, two bite pieces, often wrapped in wonton or dough, usually served (in restaurants at least) not as a single plate, but as an array of small serving sized choices.
Summer is the hot season (say June, July, and August), which is fading away during the month of September. Another way to say that something is fading away is to say that it is dimming (usually used to refer to light).
In English, when you have a single word that you want to use to mean a person or a group of people who is/are affiliated with that word and each other, you can stick an "er" (or "ers" if plural) at the end of the word. (Example: climb and climber or run and runners)
So: Dim Sum-mers could mean both folks who eat Dim Sum, and the time of year (September) when summer is fading (or dimming) away.
- Thanks to Christie for the explanation |
