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
3 Comments:
My grandmother also used the word, and she spent her whole life (so far--she just turned 90) in the same town in Western New York, at the foot of Lake Ontario. So there must be other pockets of the word as well.
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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