[Chad Fairbanks]

What's really odd is, the word 'Bureau' was basically phased-out of common usage as a way to refer to a Chest Of Drawers sometime in the 1700s IIRC, but in one small corner of the country, it still thrived... Etymology (The Study of Bugs or Words, I forget which) seems like it would be a pretty cool thing to study :0)

[coydog]

"Bureau" is still used that way up in Canada, particularly in the east.