Editing Brunch (section)

==Origin of the word==
The 1896 supplement to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' cites ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' magazine, which wrote that the term was coined in Britain in 1895 to describe a Sunday meal for "Saturday-night carousers" in the writer Guy Beringer's article "Brunch: A Plea"<ref>{{cite book|last=Gold|first=David L.|title=Studies in etymology and etiology|year=2009|publisher=Universidad de Alicante|isbn=978-84-7908-517-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l015C5vm1XkC&q=brunch+%22Guy+beringer%22&pg=PA99|page=99}}</ref> in ''Hunter's Weekly''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Merriam-Webster's, Inc.|title=Merriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage|year=1994|publisher=Merrriam Webster|isbn=978-0-87779-132-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2yJusP0vrdgC&q=brunch+%22Guy+beringer%22&pg=PA203|page=203}}</ref><ref>{{cite wikisource |title=Brunch: a plea |last=Beringer |first=Guy |year=1895}}</ref>

{{quotation|Instead of England's early Sunday dinner, a postchurch ordeal of heavy meats and savory pies, the author wrote, why not a new meal, served around noon, that starts with tea or coffee, marmalade and other breakfast fixtures before moving along to the heavier fare{{pb}}By eliminating the need to get up early on Sunday, brunch would make life brighter for Saturday-night carousers. It would promote human happiness in other ways as well.{{pb}}"Brunch is cheerful, sociable and inciting", Beringer wrote. "It is talk-compelling. It puts you in a good temper, it makes you satisfied with yourself and your fellow beings, it sweeps away the worries and cobwebs of the week."|
William Grimes, "At Brunch, the More Bizarre the Better" ''New York Times'', 1998<ref>{{cite news |author=Grimes, William |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/08/dining/at-brunch-the-more-bizarre-the-better.html?sec=travel&pagewanted=1 |title=At Brunch, The More Bizarre The Better |work=The New York Times |date=8 July 1998 |access-date=24 August 2013}}</ref>}}

Despite the substantially later date it has also been claimed that the term was possibly coined by reporter Frank Ward O'Malley, who wrote in the early 20th century for the New York City newspaper, ''[[The Sun (New York)|The Sun]]'' from 1906 until 1919.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Press: O'Malley of the Sun|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,769750,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021074110/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,769750,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 October 2008|access-date=9 September 2011|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=31 October 1932}}</ref> It is thought that he may have come up with the term after observing the typical mid-day eating habits of his colleagues at the newspaper.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/yes-sunday-brunch-was-originally-proposed-to-cure-the-hangover-2012-3|title=Finally: Confirmation That Brunch Really Was Invented To Cure Your Hangover|last=Du|first=Lisa|website=Business Insider|access-date=2020-02-19}}</ref><ref>Pietrusza, David ''Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=a4O6gNUDnj8C&dq=Frank+Ward+O%27Malley+brunch&pg=PA34 Google Books link] 2007</ref>