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[4] [5] Couch is predominantly used in North America, Australia, South Africa, and Ireland, whereas the terms sofa and settee (U and non-U) are most commonly used in the United Kingdom and India. [6] The word couch originated in Middle English from the Old French noun couche, which derived from the verb meaning "to lie down". [7]
The discussion was set in motion in 1954 by the British linguist Alan S. C. Ross, professor of linguistics in the University of Birmingham.He coined the terms "U" and "non-U" in an article on the differences social class makes in English language usage, published in a Finnish professional linguistics journal. [2]
The English usage, referring specifically to household objects, is specific to that language; [5] French and other Romance languages as well as German use variants of the word meubles, which derives from Latin mobilia, meaning "moveable goods". [6]
A divan (Turkish divan, Hindi deevaan originally from Kurdish [1] devan) is a piece of couch-like sitting furniture or, in some regions, a box-spring-based bed. Primarily, in the Middle East (especially the Ottoman Empire ), a divan was a long seat formed of a mattress laid against the side of the room, upon the floor, or a raised structure or ...
The Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen (LOB) Corpus is a one-million-word collection of British English texts which was compiled in the 1970s in collaboration between the University of Lancaster, the University of Oslo, and the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen, to provide a British counterpart to the Brown Corpus compiled by Henry Kučera and W. Nelson Francis for American English in ...
davenport (widespread though uncommon) – a sofa, or couch; euchre (throughout the North) – card game similar to spades; fridge (throughout North and West) – refrigerator; hotdish (esp. Minnesota) – a simple entree cooked in a single dish, related to casserole [3]
[12] [6] Cabriole legs were influenced by the designs of the French cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle [13] and the Rococo style from the French court of Louis XV. [14] But the intricate ornamentation of post-Restoration furniture was abandoned in favor of more conservative designs, possibly under the influence of the simple and elegant lines ...
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