Eldergays why are there so many words for sofa?

No one cares

You forgot davenport.

Keep your filthy mitts off my settee!

Davenport sounds like a porch couch.

Because they are specific words for specific usages which most people use collectively irrespective of the use.

We used chesterfield quite often when I was a kid. Must have been a manufacturer? Now we say sofa or more often couch. Altho I did have a chaise longue for a few years.

A chesterfield is a style of sofa, you fucking rubes.

The number of words for bathroom are nearly infinite. Washroom, throne room, biffy, shitter, powder room, loo, can, head, pisser, outhouse, latrine, privy, etc.

Nobody cares, R7.

R7 so is a davenport. But a sofa is a couch.

Because you're a fucking rube, R9.

I didn't have a sofa growing up.

R7 and no one said otherwise

Because no one seemed to know that, R13.

Here you go, girls. Educate yourselves.

R14 Bless your heart

Maybe household items that are used every day, everywhere have more synonyms than infrequently used items.

R16, R15 is for you, too.

R17, furniture is not "household items."

A divan and a settee are different from sofas/couches/davenports.

So are fainting couches.

[quote] "Because they are specific words for specific usages which most people use collectively irrespective of the use."

Beat me to it, R5.

Interesting. Chesterfield place name etymology from Latin means: Old English ceaster (Roman fort) and feld (pasture). So a place if space. Please, visitor, come sit on my place of space.

Um...I have several items of furniture in my house. The are definitely household items. Not sure about anyone else.

Household items are coffee machines and toasters and electric toothbrushes, R23.

I am still unravelling Fall vs. Autumn.

R25, let's unpack that.

[quote] can we retire some?

That's a doubleplusgood idea, OP.

I call the couch my livelihood.

[quote]Household items are coffee machines and toasters and electric toothbrushes

Those are electronics / appliances.

"The casting Chesterfield" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

R29, no one refers to their furniture as their household items.

And no one calls a couch a chesterfield.

Well, according to Trent Conway in Six Degrees of Separation, don't say couch if you want to sound high-end. Say sofa.

I don't have room for a couch or chesterfield but I do have a loveseat.

Chesterfield are big in Canada (or they were when I grew up).

Dad bod on a daybed.

They are all slightly different things. No one knows what the differences are tho

I prefer to call my household items, including furniture, chattels.

And what, pray tell, is a "tho," r37? Short for "thofa"?

R39 Tho is short for though. I'm sure you don't use that word in your suburbian home with white picket fence and a family golden retriever.

"Suburbian," r40? You really don't like to spell at all.

R41 I'm from Croatia and had German as my second language in school I learned English watching tv shows and cartoons as a kid.. I would love to hear how good your knowledge of Croatian is. Show us....

I used to have a sectional. It was also a curved couch and a sofa bed.

"Curved sofas are sometimes called crescent sofas or conversation sofas."

Is there no end to the categories of couches?

R41 is just a cunt, R42.

Oh, the old, "English is my third language" excuse.

[quote]your suburbian home with white picket fence and a family golden retriever.

It will be an apartment, no yard and a small yappy dog.

I think r42 is a picka as well.

Here ya go.

Nine episodes.

R47 Bolje picka nego kurac

We're old. We forget what things are called, so we call them something else.

When it comes to other words for sofa, the only one I'd jettison is "squab."

"Daveno" is reportedly the Pacific Northwest name for a sofa. But I heard it first on an early episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, in which Detective Beau Felton talks about the daveno on which a dead body lies. He also made reference to Natty Bo (National Bohemian Beer), Billytown, and other Baltimore hallmarks over the years.

R49, Samo kad si seronja od početka.

R53 Nemam pojma o čemu bljujes

Always thought a sofa was upholstered, a couch isn't. I was corrected by a designer when I said "wall-to-wall carpeting." He said "all carpeting is wall-to-wall. Everything else is a rug."

Davenport is the largest city in Iowa.

Old folks talk about a Credenza. They don't mean bookcase?

Family Guy made fun of this.

Some of the words had different meanings which have been lost. A couch originally had no back.

Davenport and divan are words I was aware of as a child, but I don’t remember anyone actually using them as a term for sofa or couch in normal conversation. These are words that I imagined belonging in the distant past, like something people would have used in the 1920s.

Divan comes from a Turkish word for a backless couch back as far as the 16th century. Davenport was a furniture manufacturer in Massachusetts, and the word became a generic term for sofa for a while, like Kleenex for tissue or (in the UK) Hoover for vacuum.

My grandma always referred to a toilet as a commode, and that usage confused me later when I heard of someone getting a beautiful antique French commode for her boudoir. I didn’t know a toilet could be that fancy or that you’d want to keep it in your bedroom.

R60, I'm sitting on an Ottoman, his name is Kruk.

A chifforobe (/ˈʃɪfəˌroʊb/), also chiffarobe or chifferobe, is a closet-like piece of furniture that combines a long space for hanging clothes (that is, a wardrobe or armoire) with a chest of drawers).[1] Typically the wardrobe section runs down one side of the piece, while the drawers occupy the other side.[2] It may have two enclosing doors or have the drawer fronts exposed and a separate door for the hanging space

It's only ever been a sofa or couch I'm my life.

[quote]Altho I did have a chaise longue for a few years.

Did you entertain gentlemen callers in your negligee? Is your name Lindsey?

Op there are many words for asshole too