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#52 Dec 15 2005 at 2:01 PM Rating: Good
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The One and Only Frakkor wrote:
Another one,

You have a small entrance room of your house that has a couple closets, some shelves, hooks for coats..etc.

There is also other storage in this room for seldom used things, like holiday decorations.

What do you call this room?


Foyer
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#53 Dec 15 2005 at 2:01 PM Rating: Excellent
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The One and Only Frakkor wrote:
Another one,

You have a small entrance room of your house that has a couple closets, some shelves, hooks for coats..etc.

There is also other storage in this room for seldom used things, like holiday decorations.

What do you call this room?
The attached garage! Smiley: laugh

If it's through the front door, I'd probably just call it the "front hall".
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#54 Dec 15 2005 at 2:03 PM Rating: Good
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Mud room, at least in Michigan

So far you have a front hall, and a front room?

I can see the tour now.

"This is the front hall and front room. Over there are the side rooms, and if you look straight through the front room you can see the back room. Any questions?"

"Oh, we park our cars in the pre-front hall room."
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#55 Dec 15 2005 at 2:11 PM Rating: Excellent
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The house I grew up in had a front hall. You'd enter through the door and enter onto a landing with stairs either going down into the basement or up into the actual living areas. We always called the area the front hall.

Now that I think about it, the difference between "front room" and "living room" seems to be the presence or absence of a television. I call mine the front room as it lacks a TV. My childhood home had the TV there and we called it the living room. The room in my home with a TV is the family room. Occassionally I use "living room" to refer to either one randomly which confuses the kid when I give him something and say "put this in the living room" and he only has a 50% chance of being right Smiley: grin
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What about couch/sofa/divan?

In Arkansas everyone says "couch" but my friend's dad one day asked me to put something "on the divan." I had never heard this before and I thought he was talking about the van in their driveway. I was like "wtf?" but I went outside and put whatever it was on top of their van.
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Same with Ottoman/footstool/footrest.
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#58 Dec 15 2005 at 2:20 PM Rating: Excellent
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"Couch". I rarely use "sofa" but that was another Grandma word. I'll have to remember it for the parlor.
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Same with Ottoman/footstool/footrest.
"Cat".

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#59 Dec 15 2005 at 2:22 PM Rating: Good
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Here its a mud room if it's off the garage. If its by the front of the house its the front hall.
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#60 Dec 15 2005 at 2:23 PM Rating: Decent
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Out of curiousity...

You enter a house. You are either in or adjacent to a large room with (among other things) a couch, coffee table, picture window and perhaps a Christmas tree given the season.

What do you call that room?


It's the front room
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#61 Dec 15 2005 at 2:25 PM Rating: Excellent
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It's the front room
Good man.

Where do you live?
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#62 Dec 15 2005 at 2:30 PM Rating: Good
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He lives in the back room.

My great grandmother always called her couch the davenport...which to me was the oddest thing I ever heard. I guess it was a brand name or something.

I always just thought she was crazy...turns out she was.
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Living room for chairs, tv or not tv.
And for the entrance room, its simply the entryway. Where I grew up we had the same thing where you go up or down upon entering but then we had the wash and dryer and coat hooks where you went up, we called it a back porch even though it was a fully enclosed part of the house. (farm house and we entered from the back, the front door was never used)

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The One and Only Frakkor wrote:

My great grandmother always called her couch the davenport...which to me was the oddest thing I ever heard.


I think this and the "divan" thing I was talking about (not sure exactly how to spell it) have the same origin. It is some sort of brand name.
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Jophiel wrote:
"Couch". I rarely use "sofa" but that was another Grandma word.


I feel semi-homosexual for knowing such information, but I can actually tell the difference between a couch and a sofa. OOO there is one. The SO is pus[/b]sifying me.
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I feel semi-homosexual for knowing such information, but I can actually tell the difference between a couch and a sofa. OOO there is one. The SO is pus[/b]sifying me.


Spill it!
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I may be wrong about this, but here goes: a davenport has visible legs and a curved back. A sofa may be the same as a couch, or not - a sofa may be sectional, I think.

Edit: oh, man, was I ever wrong.

Davenport and sofa are the same - arms, back, and convertible (into a bed). A couch may be more like a day bed.

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Samira wrote:


Edit: oh, man, was I ever wrong.

Davenport and sofa are the same - arms, back, and convertible (into a bed). A couch may be more like a day bed.

Edited, Thu Dec 15 14:54:08 2005 by Samira


Correct, couches are without backing or arm support(often one arm). The SO is majoring in Interior Design, and they make her learn stuff like this. It's rubbing off.

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My great grandmother always called her couch the davenport...which to me was the oddest thing I ever heard.



Here's one for you. My family seems to use the term "hutch" and "dry sink" interchangeably. I stay away fromn both terms if at all possible...
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Anyone still call their refridgerator the icebox?

Pretty common where I live.
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fenderputy the Shady wrote:

Correct, couches are without backing or arm support(often one arm). The SO is majoring in Interior Design, and they make her learn stuff like this. It's rubbing off.


At least 1 entire state does not agree!

Yes, I know everyone in Arkansas.


No, they are not all related to me.
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Professor klyia wrote:

At least 1 entire state does not agree!

[sm]Yes, I know everyone in Arkansas.




Arkansas is not allowed to have a position on anything cultured.
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#73 Dec 15 2005 at 3:08 PM Rating: Good
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The One and Only Frakkor wrote:
Anyone still call their refridgerator the icebox?

Pretty common where I live.


No, but you'll hear it called the Frigidaire a lot around here.
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#74 Dec 15 2005 at 3:11 PM Rating: Excellent
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Here's one for you. My family seems to use the term "hutch" and "dry sink" interchangeably. I stay away fromn both terms if at all possible...
Hey! We had a dry sink, growing up. I consider a hutch to be like a china cabinet but without the glass doors and usually with wooden shelves. The "dry sink" was like a 4' high decorative wooden box with a cabinet door in front and a little shelf on the top.

I've no idea why it'd be called a "dry sink", but there ya go.

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Wouldn't you love to be teaching English as a second language? Smiley: banghead
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The room is an entryway. If it is in front, it's the front entryway. On the side? Side entryway. I have heard of mud room and whatnot, but I have never called it that myself.

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