What do you call this?

**catnapper** · 02-17-2007, 09:27 AM

Hee hee.... just a silly little thing thats been tripping me up at work.

All my life, I've called this a couch:

Now at work, I have to call it a "sofa" to customers, because the thought is that saying "couch" can have a negative impression on people (as in "couch potato")

Soooo.... what do you all call this piece of furniture and would you think "couch" is a negative word? I will retrain my brain to call it a sofa, but its HARD, after 30-some years of calling it a couch

Photo borrowed from LA-Z-Boy's website, here's a link: La-Z-Boy
I used that particular couch.... errr.... sofa because its called the Cameron

**sirrahbed** · 02-17-2007, 09:31 AM

That is a couch to me.

**sirrahbed** · 02-17-2007, 09:32 AM

That is a couch to me.

A sofa is what my New York grandmother had in her parlor.

**kimlovescats** · 02-17-2007, 09:34 AM

It's a couch to me, also!

**TFTpwnsYou** · 02-17-2007, 09:39 AM

Either a couch or a dog/cat bed. I don't think couch is negative. I think happy thoughts when I hear it cause that's where me and the animals cuddle up.

**gemini9961** · 02-17-2007, 09:47 AM

Couch here too, never been a sofa for me either.

**Pembroke_Corgi** · 02-17-2007, 10:00 AM

I say couch and sofa, although I've also heard people call them "davenports."

**Crikit** · 02-18-2007, 07:13 PM

That would be a couch or a chesterfield to me. It would all depend on what type of mood I am in at the moment.

**LoudLou** · 02-18-2007, 07:47 PM

"couch" can have a negative impression on people????

What about "Sofa Surfing"?
A phrase that among musicians tends to be mean, "No place to live, no real job, no money" etc. I've known many Sofa Surfers.