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To: Darksheare

I was born near Davenport, IA. How did you know?

What happened to sofa? Did you forget poor old sofa. If you change the “a” to “u,” you got yourself a couple of UFOS...


2,415 posted on 12/25/2013 8:09:31 PM PST by Slip18
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To: Slip18

In the particular area of Ohio that I originate from, were you to call a davenport a couch, one would find discomfiture and plague bats summoned onto your skull.
Same with “sofa”.
The definitions of each being actually distinct at one point.

Frightening in retrospect.
Grandma sitting there hawkishly staring over her blue hornrim glasses, her cane held almost in “point in line”.


2,416 posted on 12/25/2013 8:17:10 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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