What do you call this?

[Pembroke_Corgi]

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

[sirrahved]

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

My grandma and grandpa call it a davenport. To me though, it looks like a nice, comfy couch!

[Daisy and Delilah]

It's a couch to me too. Always has been, always will be.

If people are offended by this, I shudder to think what this world has come to. I have to wonder if people this touchy are carrying giant guilt complexes on their shoulders. The world needs to lighten up and have a sense of humor. If you can't laugh, what can you do?

[Vela]

I call mine a couch, but salespeople call them sofas because it sounds more "rich" and proper. It's really just a play on words, sofa is more proper while couch is "slang", at least on sales floor.

[DrKym]

It is a nap place!
We call it a couch, altough my father in law calls them davenports also Maybe it is a Kansas thing? I never heard them called that, although a SOFA is what you are not allowed to sit on until you are 30 in when we were growing up. It was what the adults sat on (looked like a white couch to us!)

[BC_MoM]

I call that a chesterfield!

[Twisterdog]

I call it a couch.

My parents called it a couch, and we had a big, ugly orange and white velveteen one growing up, that all our friends and us sat on, jumped on the cushions and watched TV on.

However, my grandparents did not have a "couch" they had a "sofa" or a "davenport". We would no more have sat on those things than we would have thrown oatmeal on the carpet.

Perhaps it's a level of formality, perhaps it's generational.

[Killearn Kitties]

I would call it a couch, sofa, or settee. I don't think of one word as being more up-market than another, but sales people will always try to avoid negative connotations.

[kuhio98]

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

Bobcat does that. Davenports or Divan - "A long backless sofa, especially one set with pillows against a wall." It's such an old-fashioned word. I'd call it a couch. No, I don't think it has a negative connotation.

[Randi]

I just HAD to go and look for a Divan too. LOL!

Here are a few:
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=...&_sb_lang=pref

[Miss Z]

I would call that a settee, although apparantly there are differences between a 'sofa' and a settee.

[Zippy]

I say couch and sofa.It depends on who I am talking too.

[Rachel]

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

I use all three of these words, but probably couch and sofa more than davenport.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I call it a couch.
My grandma in upstate New York calls it a davenport.

[Cataholic]

Who CARES what you call it, what I want to know is whether it answers you back?????


I am kind of funny today, aren't I?