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From: crane@fortune.UUCP (John Crane)
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Subject: Re: local words ("tonic and frappe")
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 14:58:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 14:58:19 1984
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Lets leave the New Englanders alone for awhile.

In Utah they call "rubber bands" "elestics".

In Texas they call a "toilet" a "commode" and a "set" of bedroom
furniture is s "suite" of bedroom furniture.

In the Northwest, where I come from they call a couch or sofa or
whatever you sit on when you watch TV a "davenport". In my travels
around the country, I have never heard the term anywhere else. Is
is true that the Canadians call it a "chesterfield"?