What do you call this?

[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.

[Freckles]

Davenport.

[Pam]

Maybe it is a regional thing or a generational thing. I call it a sofa but my mother (quite elderly) would call it a davenport.

[Randi]

I would call it a sofa here, but probably a couch in USA. I actually thought couch was the translation of sofa. I think more British people would say settee.

Actually, I wonder where the word sofa originates from - I haven't checked.

This is a Chesterfield:
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=...&_sb_lang=pref

[Craftlady]

Davenport, Couch, Sofa all three names I've used. Davenport maybe a generation thing but then again I'm NOT old. and call a couch a davenport. I'm also from NE Ohio not sure it's a regional thing.
If I was going into a store, I would call it a sofa to the sales person since that seems to get the point across what your looking to buy.

[sparks19]

It's a couch

[Suki Wingy]

that is a couch!

[GreyhoundGirl]

divan. Just one of those words that didn't need to be translated.

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

I also call it a couch - never anything else.