Is it okay to say, “Every day they have wada and dosa during the midday?”

We know when we say `midday’, we mean 12 o’clock in the afternoon. Since we are referring to a specific time in the afternoon, we should use `at’ and not `during’.


We should say, “They have wada and dosai” at midday. If you would like to use `during’, then use `middle’ rather than `midday’.


*The clerk told us that the forms would be distributed at midday. *You’d better take a cap. It gets really hot during the middle of the day.


Source: S. Upendran, The Hindu ‘Know Your English’ Series, February 27, 2006