On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:21:37 -0400, Singh
yodeled:



Yoj wrote:

"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:36:49 -0500, Jeanne Hedge
yodeled:

On 22 Oct 2004 15:31:21 -0700,
(Enfilade) wrote:

We ALWAYS say go down cellar. I'm from a community of German
immigrants who settled in Ontario. I still say that myself.

I don't know about "go down the cellar", but in southern New Jersey
people "go down the shore" instead of "go to the beach"

My partner is from Prince Edward Island where "go down to the
basement" is in use.

Here's another one--what's that big soft thing you sit on in the
living room? To us it's a couch, but my grandmother calls it "a
chesterfield."

My US Midwest (central Indiana) grandmother called it a "davenport",
while my other grandmother, also from the US Midwest (western Iowa),
called it a "couch".


Hey, what about "sofa" ?

Theresa

We always called it a "davenport". I was floored when my son-in-law,
who is from Maine, asked, "What is a davenport?"

We had this thingie when I was really little, that my parents called a
"Hollywood Bed." I never quite figured what that meant, for as a small
child I assumed we kept beds in bedrooms, not living rooms. I was in my
late twenties before I learned that it's a daybed. I've never heard anyone
outside my family call it a Hollywood bed.

Blessed be,
Baha


I, um, Stinky has a day bed.

Theresa
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