Matters Most Important: Is it 'Sofa' or 'Couch'?

Davenport.

Shofa.

Coush.

'Sex Partner"

Couch.

My mom (born early 1950s) called it a sofa.

Couches are for fucking.

Or jumping

Always said couch.

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.

My couchie itches, y’all!

That’s like asking “butthole” or “bunghole.”

It's a personal preference, but so consciencely un-learned couch.

I use both.

[quote]Davenport.

DAWN Davenport! I'm a thief and a shitkicker, and I'd like to be famous!

I used them both interchangeably.

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.

Sofa is the proper term these days.

I use them interchangeably.

Chesterfield.

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Neither. It's "whore". As in: "YOU'RE GONNA MAKE ME CUM YOU WHORE!!!"

I haven't heard "Chesterfield" since childhood.

Chesterfield are a specific style of sofa

R3, I think you're on to something. Name your JD Vance cognitive test words.

Sex, Partner, Eyeliner, Childless, Cat, Lady

If it's long enough, a divan.

Shofa

The formal debut of Couchy.

Kouch Town.

The American way.

Both

Grew up calling it a sofa (Northeast working class family).

Loveseat

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.

Futon

“Dirt” most days. “Mat” when we’re living the high life.

Couches and Me Too.

We will not remain silent any longer.

Lizsha must be on an early morning bender. At R25 she had already forgotten she’d posted at R2.

Davenport

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.

*while the daughters-in-law

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.

"Sofafucker" doesn't roll off the tongue the way that "couchfucker" does, so I'll go with the latter.

How to differentiate between a sofa and a couch. And yes, there is a difference.

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.

Sofa has arms, couch doesn’t.

Couch, but when it's a sex partner it's pronounced "cooch".

Let me in, coach !

Fuck Yo Couch!

I think Southerners tend to use sofa.

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".