Much Later Edit: I happened across this article discussing the agricultural roots of midday dinner and evening supper, just to add a bit more to the conversation. So whether you use lunch/dinner or dinner/supper is heavily determined by when your culture traditionally has its largest meal. Lunch is almost the midday equivalent of supper - it's also a lighter and less formal meal than Dinner, but is used specifically when referring to a midday meal. Rooted in the word "to sup", it comes, again, from farming traditions - many farming families would have a pot of soup cooking throughout the day, and would eat it in the evening - specifically, they would "sup" the soup. Supper is more specifically a lighter evening meal.
For instance, many people who grew up in the American South and/or on farms traditionally ate larger meals at noontime to give them the strength to keep working through the afternoon.
Whether it takes place at noon or in the evening is mostly a cultural thing. Dinner is considered to be the "main" or largest meal of the day.
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