Along the same lines as the BBQ thread...

[Deleted]

What do you call this piece of furniture?



I had this conversation with someone for a shockingly long time today.

[tiffbot]

I call it a couch but wouldn't be confused if someone said sofa to me.

[sugarkissed]

May 22, 2016 23:06:36 GMT -5 tiffbot said:

I call it a couch but wouldn't be confused if someone said sofa to me.

+1 

[Deleted]

Team sofa. I hate the word couch. It makes me cringe for some reason.

[pghtruelove]

Couch or sofa

[thecatsmeow]

Couch, but to my grandma it would have been a davenport. My brother and I still sometimes refer to my parents' couch as "the davenport".

[erbear]

Couch or sofa.

[Bluedaisy]

Couch or sofa

[heartofglass]

May 23, 2016 0:01:24 GMT -5 @badwolf321 said:

Couch. Two cushions it's a love seat

WSS^

[mirage86]

May 23, 2016 5:38:44 GMT -5 heartofglass said:

May 23, 2016 0:01:24 GMT -5 @badwolf321 said:

Couch. Two cushions it's a love seat

WSS^

+2

[Widget123]

Also use both

[kemdupuis]

Couch. Sometimes Sofa.

[mbjune13]

Couch but sometimes sofa.

[sabrinaml]

May 23, 2016 6:14:12 GMT -5 kemdupuis said:

Couch. Sometimes Sofa.

+1

[purple]

It's a settee, but sofa isn't an odd word. Davenport is very old fashioned. I understand couch but it's not in my vocabulary.

[purple]

Oh, and it's a settee no matter how big it is. You can get two, three or four seaters.

This is a loveseat. They're very old fashioned.

goo.gl/images/9d1MHQ

[periwinkledaydreams]

Always say couch, understand sofa but would not use it myself. Use loveseat to mean the type of thing budders posted. Would not understand settee or whatever the other one mentioned I can't remember now.

ETA davenport and chesterfield. I would not have a clue what those were unless the context made it obvious.

[dmoney]

May 22, 2016 23:01:44 GMT -5 @imapenguin said:

May 22, 2016 22:58:05 GMT -5 @akwild said:

I use both sofa and couch....

+1

+1 for me as well. 

[alayne926]

May 22, 2016 23:06:36 GMT -5 tiffbot said:

I call it a couch but wouldn't be confused if someone said sofa to me.

me too

[blueskiessmiling]

I would most likely use couch, but sofa wouldn't seem odd to me. However, a sofa can also be used to describe a couch with a pull-out bed. Most people in this area reserve the word sofa for that type of couch.

[blueskiessmiling]

Reading "couch" this many times has made me decide it's a weird word.

[tiffbot]

May 23, 2016 7:03:11 GMT -5 @babybean9 said:

Chesterfield.

Just kidding, I haven't heard anyone use that since I was a kid. I say couch. None of the others confuse me though.

Haha I forgot about that term!

[periwinkledaydreams]

May 23, 2016 8:30:25 GMT -5 blueskiessmiling said:

Reading "couch" this many times has made me decide it's a weird word.

Its cause it makes you wanna think "coochie" lol. Somebody had to say it

[Deleted]

May 23, 2016 8:30:25 GMT -5 blueskiessmiling said:

Reading "couch" this many times has made me decide it's a weird word.

Exactly!!!

[jillywilly]

I don't think I've ever thought this much about it, but I pretty much use both sofa and couch interchangeably.

[Deleted]

I use both couch or sofa

[tjanca22]

Add me to the couch or sofa club.

[belle0720]

Sofa or Couch. Loveseat is a two-seater. A Settee is smaller like this:

I've never heard the terms Davenport or Chesterfield!

[belle0720]

@jemomma I would call that a pull-out sofa/couch (never realized it sounded dirty until now!), or a sleeper sofa.

And then of course, there's Futons.

[purple]

May 23, 2016 11:05:27 GMT -5 belle0720 said:

Sofa or Couch. Loveseat is a two-seater. A Settee is smaller like this:

I'd call that a bench. It's not squashy enough to be a settee.

Interesting that you call a two seater settee a loveseat. In the UK that's only used for the weird piece of furniture I linked to, the purpose of which is to enable intimate conversation without the risk of the couple's lower bodies coming into contact. I think they were horrendously shocking in Victorian times.

Although I usually say settee, I would always say sofa bed, not settee bed.

We have a futon in the nursery at present, but I don't think we'll keep it when we move. It's comfortable as a bed but not all that comfortable as a settee, so I think we'll get something better for sitting on.