Jan 25, 2010
Bossy’s Favorite Things
Sharing the sofa with Stella. OK, This is only an occasional favorite thing. The other million days a year, Bossy is shoving Stella off to make more room for herself.
Here’s a quick fun poll, right here in the middle of a favorite thing. Do you call it sofa or couch?
Couch here and really happy when we adopted our 2 yr old HUGE Berner he was pre-trained NOT to get on the furniture. It’s bad enough sharing w/3 cats!
Couch (but I think my MIL calls it a sofa).
Couch
Both–and sometimes divan—what? says my grandkids
both.
I depends on what mood I am in, who I am talking to and what I and/or others are doing on it
Sofa. But as a kid, we said divan. And my grandmother said davenport. So I ask myself, how did I get to sofa?
–>I say both but mostly couch. I also say diet soda and not pop.
Couch – and our weiny dog thinks it is her personal perch.
Couch. But only the newer one in the living room that was our wedding gift from my MiL. The one in the parlor that was a wedding gift for my husband’s grandmother in 1929? THAT one is ALWAYS the davenport.
History lives at Blackrock.
sofa. and pop.
Mostly couch except between 1-3 pm when I call it my bed. And you certainly wouldn’t call Stella (or Bossy) a sofa potato.
Mostly sofa. Sometimes couch. My Granny was known to call it a Davenport.
Couch. And while we’re on the subject, ‘lunch’ is ‘dinner’ and all ‘canned drinks’ are ‘coke’. Go figure.
Couch, obviously.
Sofa!
Couch. As in “Get off my couch!”
Except when saying “Share the sofa”. Sounds better.
Also, sharing the couch/sofa with Stella for a sunny afternoon nap?
Luxury indeed…
Couch. My husband calls it a sofa and we fight about it. He is Southern, I am Northern, so we are convinced it’s a regional thing.
He also sings the ABC song incorrectly. True story.
Both. Split personality issues?
Most usually sofa, but if I were talking to a Canadian and happened to think of it in time, I’d call it a Chesterfield to make them happy.
If you stay with us on your (no) book tour, Tuck will insist upon you giving him some lap time, but he takes up far less space that Stella.
Um, than Stella, I meant to type. Stupid fingers.
Both.. weird. I never realized… You made me think of that. I think I call the one in the family room, covered with dogs a sofa. The one in the living room covered with something.. Couch. sofa = comfy. Couch = not so much.
Both: me, more couch; DH, more sofa. Daughter: her school stuff dumping zone (the backpack does stay on the floor.
More frequently of late: “needs replacing.”
p..j.
That’s the sofa, not the daughter.
p.j.
I use both. It all depends on my mood.
I say couch, Hubs says sofa, Grandma says davenport = confused kids.
We call it a couch, but Grandma used to call it a davenport.
Couch.
We’re couch people here.
Sofa. And soda, for carbonated beverages. I’ve never heard of a davenport! Weirdos =P
We don’t have one by any name in the living room at the moment, and the one in the back room is called a futon, so I guess I’m out of the loop.
But, when I have one, it’s a couch. And I remember singing a camp song when I was a kid that talked about a davenport being the best sort of loveseat. (“When we sit there I can feel my heart beat! Heart Beat!”)
Couch.
Unless I’m describing a person who spends too much time on it, then it’s Sofa Spud.
Sofa. But growing up (as a Canadian) my family called it a chesterfield. Hence the Canadian kid knock-knock joke:
- Knock, knock.
* Who’s there?
- Chesterfield.
* Chesterfield, who?
- Chester feeled my leg so I kicked him.
The name we have for it is “Place I never get to sit.”
It’s the couch to me, sofa to husband, sectional to my OCD kid.
I’ve always called it a couch except for a brief period when I worked in the furniture buying offices of a major dept store. For those 6 months I was forced to call it a sofa. Once I moved on to greener pastures I reverted back calling it a couch again.
Couch 9 times out of 10.
Couch. And it seems to me that Stella should spend more of her time kicking YOU off the couch. A big dog has got to have a big comfy couch. I’m just saying….
Couch. We had a davenport growing up.
sleep on the couch….but sit on the sofa
We have a futon, on the floor to help in opening our hips –as westerners sit in chairs too much for good yoga-ing.
When friends & family come over they always ask, “is that your couch?” So I guess up here in the north we call it a couch.
I’m the grandma and I call it a davenport. Couch or sofa can be used but they don’t come out automatically.
Couch, on which my own gigantic dog is NOT allowed.
Here in Virginia we call ‘em sofas.
Couch and loveseat. Sofa always sounded like some kind of allergy to me. My couch and loveseat, by the way, are the personal domain of my two basset hounds. One on each, so hubby and I always have to share with at least one dog.
I use both!!
I’m from Texas and I say couch. Very rarely I may say sofa.
And every carbonated beverage is a Coke. “What kind of Coke do you want?”
=)
Both… living room couch and LR Sofa. Dunno why Actually
Sofa. My mother and dad called it a davenport. Nobody else ever knew what we were talking about.
Settee, is that because I’m English?
Both. But my dogs call it “theirs”, so I never get to use it anyway…
i say “couch”, feel terribly unrefined, quickly excuse myself, say “sofa” and let out a huge sigh of relief.
Couch. Definitely couch.
COUCH. (sorry for ‘yelling’)
Couch and soda, but as a kid my parents called it a Chesterfield and we’re native Californians. Except my grandparents moved here from Wisconsin, kinda close to Canada, eh?
Couch, not sofa.
Soda, not pop.
Sneakers, not tennis shoes.
Singles, not dollar bills.
Ohhh the looks you get when you move to the south and no one knows what you’re talking about half of the time.
ditto – #55
Chesterfield….it’s the Canadian in me.
I usually call it the couch, but I’m sure I sometimes say sofa. My mother in law calls it the divan, with the “van” part pronounced just like the automobile, and I just think that’s the funniest thing ever.
Oh dang, what’s that smell? On no, its poofoo feet.
How else can one be a couch potato?
Couch. As in “get your GD hairy ass off the couch”! (and that’s just to my husband…
Both, I think. But now I’m over-analyzing. However, like some of the others, I grew up calling it a “davenport.”
My parents also called it a davenport. What up wit dat?
Couch
A formal living room has a sofa, but a family room has a couch. A couch is way more comfortable than a sofa. It is for laying and watching TV, not sitting nervously next to your prom date waiting to meet your dad.
Right now, it’s the dogs’ bed. Someday, we’ll get ourselves a new couch.
Couch. But, my grandma called it a “davenport” and I like to say that sometimes when I’m missing her. I also tell the kids to get me my “pocketbook” and then I say, “Have mercy!”
Couch, but when I was in second grade, a boy named Jeffrey Davenport liked me and chased me around his back yard trying to kiss me.
Couch.
Couch.
hm. depends on who im talking too! the husband or the child? its a couch and a fridge. the parents? the davenport and the ice box
Couch. Sometimes sofa. I never heard it called a Chesterfield til I read the comments. Wow, Bossy’s blog is so educational!
We say “big couch” and “little couch” . . . because one’s big and one’s little (duh!). Everyone fights for the big couch, because the little one is too . . . well, you know.
couch
Lounge!
We use both here, it’s the same in German (you probably know). But I feel a sofa is something you would have to sit more upright on, whereas you can feel free to slouch on a couch. And a sofa is prettier than a couch most of the times so I tend to call mine a sofa.
Lounge
…and Happy Australia Day!!!
I call mine a “couch,” but considering it’s a mid-century sectional with hairpin legs (thank the Craigslist Gods!), that might be inaccurate.