Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!fortune!crane From: crane@fortune.UUCP (John Crane) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: local words ("tonic and frappe") Message-ID: <2814@fortune.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 14:58:19 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2814 Posted: Thu Mar 22 14:58:19 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 21:07:33 EST References: <788@dciem.UUCP>, <635@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 12 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"?