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Matters Most Important: Is it 'Sofa' or 'Couch'?
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 31, 2024 8:42 PM |
Davenport.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 31, 2024 11:39 AM |
Shofa.
Coush.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 31, 2024 11:41 AM |
'Sex Partner"
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 31, 2024 11:58 AM |
Couch.
My mom (born early 1950s) called it a sofa.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 31, 2024 12:00 PM |
Couches are for fucking.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 31, 2024 12:17 PM |
Or jumping
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 31, 2024 12:18 PM |
Always said couch.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 31, 2024 12:19 PM |
Settee should have been an option, for our British hoes.
We only say couch in my language, sofa isn't an option. Fauteuil is also sometimes used improperly to refer to a couch.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 31, 2024 1:47 PM |
My couchie itches, y’all!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 31, 2024 1:58 PM |
That’s like asking “butthole” or “bunghole.”
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 31, 2024 2:02 PM |
It's a personal preference, but so consciencely un-learned couch.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 31, 2024 2:05 PM |
I use both.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 31, 2024 2:07 PM |
[quote]Davenport.
DAWN Davenport! I'm a thief and a shitkicker, and I'd like to be famous!
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 31, 2024 2:11 PM |
I used them both interchangeably.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 31, 2024 2:17 PM |
I actually looked this up a few months ago. A sofa has arms and a couch may or may not have arms. A sofa would be considered a more formal piece of furniture while a couch would be considered a more casual piece of furniture.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 31, 2024 2:18 PM |
Sofa is the proper term these days.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 31, 2024 2:23 PM |
I use them interchangeably.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 31, 2024 2:25 PM |
Chesterfield.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 31, 2024 2:30 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 31, 2024 2:31 PM |
Neither. It's "whore". As in: "YOU'RE GONNA MAKE ME CUM YOU WHORE!!!"
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 31, 2024 2:34 PM |
I haven't heard "Chesterfield" since childhood.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 31, 2024 2:48 PM |
R3, I think you're on to something. Name your JD Vance cognitive test words.
Sex, Partner, Eyeliner, Childless, Cat, Lady
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 31, 2024 3:04 PM |
If it's long enough, a divan.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 31, 2024 3:12 PM |
Shofa
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 31, 2024 3:29 PM |
Both
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 31, 2024 3:57 PM |
Grew up calling it a sofa (Northeast working class family).
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 31, 2024 3:57 PM |
Loveseat
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 31, 2024 4:03 PM |
It was the Midwest and it’s a “so-FAH” and we had enough Norwegians to really torture the fuck out of that word as well as the entire English language.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 31, 2024 4:08 PM |
Futon
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 31, 2024 4:11 PM |
“Dirt” most days. “Mat” when we’re living the high life.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 31, 2024 4:13 PM |
Couches and Me Too.
We will not remain silent any longer.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 31, 2024 4:14 PM |
Lizsha must be on an early morning bender. At R25 she had already forgotten she’d posted at R2.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 31, 2024 4:15 PM |
Davenport
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 31, 2024 4:18 PM |
Watching the results go from a very strong "sofa" lead in early hours to being decidedly (if predictably) overtaken by "couch"... I think it must be like having a child and watching it grow uglier and stupider over time. Just when you had hoped to see your offspring go off to a good university, the child has become Cletus from The Simpsons. Cletus, of course, would be a "couch" person.
The very U[pper Class] Nancy Mitford organized the problem ages ago: sofa = U; couch = non-U.
My family (non-U) used both words interchangeably, favoring "sofa," when the daughters-in-law favored "couch."
"Couch" is such an ugly, vulgar word. Like "cooch" but with a "u" and with with less opportunity for comedy. "Couch" never makes one laugh, only cringe.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 31, 2024 4:32 PM |
*while the daughters-in-law
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 31, 2024 4:34 PM |
R37, my dad ran a furniture store when I was growing up (60s and 70s), and he commanded his kids to use”sofa” rather than “couch” because he deemed the former upscale and classy, while the former was downscale and working class.
I couldn’t keep the two straight, though, because my mom’s parents always used “couch” and my dad’s parents said “davenport.”
I admit, the word “sofa” sounds more pleasant.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 31, 2024 4:44 PM |
"Sofafucker" doesn't roll off the tongue the way that "couchfucker" does, so I'll go with the latter.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 31, 2024 5:02 PM |
How to differentiate between a sofa and a couch. And yes, there is a difference.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 31, 2024 5:09 PM |
R41: That's a whole article and headline promising a distinction and never delivering. It just suggests following the diplomatically vague distinction of an interior designer - who says the terms are used interchangeably and suggests that, if there is any distinction to be made, that nice people have sofas 'with a more design-oriented feel" and that gauche people have couches she thinks of 'something oversized, stuffed, and informal', i.e., ugly sofas for trashy people.
Let's not bother with asking a linguist, a furniture historian, or someone who might actually have an informed view, we'ĺl just ask a clueless interior designer what she 'feels' about the two words.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 31, 2024 5:44 PM |
Sofa has arms, couch doesn’t.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 31, 2024 6:31 PM |
Couch, but when it's a sex partner it's pronounced "cooch".
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 31, 2024 7:51 PM |
Let me in, coach !
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 31, 2024 7:52 PM |
Fuck Yo Couch!
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 31, 2024 8:05 PM |
I think Southerners tend to use sofa.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 31, 2024 8:07 PM |
R37 is correct. Sofa is what middle class and rich white people say.
There's even a scene in Six Degrees of Separation when Will Smith is learning how to pass for someone with money.
"Sofa, never couch".
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 31, 2024 8:42 PM |