I'm confused. What's the difference between 'morning coffee' and 'coffee morning'?

Question

If I want to put it as one of the facilities the participants will get by attending a seminar, which term should I use? 'Morning coffee' or 'Coffee morning'?

Answer 1

Morning coffee is having coffee in the morning, usually for a mid-morning break. A coffee morning is a specific morning event where people come just to socialise, chat, drink coffee and eat cakes and biscuits. Sometimes people have them as a charity fund-raiser. It wouldn't be part of anything else. Rather the same thing as a lady at my former church used to do - "Come to Tea!" at her house in the afternoon, there's tea and coffee and cakes, there's information available about a church charity and we give money to support it.



For your purpose, just call it "coffee" and say when it will be available. Then nobody can possibly be confused. I've been to plenty of seminars and conferences, and it will just be "coffee" on the timetable if it is served at a specific time, or "coffee on arrival" if it's going to be there for people to have a cup before the seminar starts.



Or as I'm British, it always turns out to be "coffee or tea"!

Answer 2

I'd go with "morning coffee", which is a coffee drunk in the morning. To me a "coffee morning" is at least a couple hours or a whole morning spent drinking coffee, maybe eating coffee cake or the like, and socializing with a group of people you don't necessarily know well. It could be an open-house type event for a club or business.

Answer 3

Morning coffee sounds like it's something you get

Coffee morning implies it's one of those morning that you need coffee so you don't kill people. "It's a coffee kinda morning"

Go with morning coffee

Or if you want to get people hyped don't keep it boring

Say "morning wake-me-up juice" or "free caffeine in a cup"

Answer 4

Coffee Morning.