Divan
An old friend who grew up in the same town writes:
My Grandmother used "divan" exclusively to describe the couch/sofa. I have never heard anyone else call it that either. She was born in Oklahoma and has spent most of her life there in NW Arkansas. Hmmm . . . is there a hidden pocket of divan speakers in the hills of NWA?
posted by Stuart Buck at
9:11 PM
2 Comments:
My Mom's side of the family (her Mother, her Aunt, her Grandmother) used the word Divan. Mom's side of the family are NE Ohio-ans since the Civil War.
My grandmother, born and raised in Detroit, used a similar but different word - davenport. To all of her descendants, it's a couch.
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