tenni
Jul 1, 2014, 1:55 AM
It is Canada's 147 th birthday today.:bounce: :bday: Some people took Monday off to make a really long weekend. Some didn't. (poor buggers..lol)
A little slang difference to help our southern cousins understand our language..the English part. Not translating this to Francais though...lol
Actually, the poster may have it wrong? Its a chesterfield not a sofa..not sure about couch ..we may both use that term now more than chesterfield?
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darkeyes
Jul 1, 2014, 3:24 AM
A couch.. sofa.. same thing!! A Chesterfield.. leather couch or sofa... usually called a sofa by nobs and peeps who don't know betta.. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=chesterfield+suite+wikipedia&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=XFmyU7GVL4WhO9_2gNgE&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1366&bih=653#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=kNtctkIqgUgODM%253A%3BE56-bGehjXZGJM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.qualitychester fields.com%252Fimages%252Fchesterfield_sofa_home.j pg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.qualitychesterfields.c om%252F%3B521%3B228.
Part of a suite.. ver expensive ver posh.. ver posey and ver old fashioned...
If a nob or middle class, 'tis a sofa usually.. the working classes.. 'tis a couch... tho the words r interchangeable.. so they r same thing k:confused:
The can of wot u call pop is not a can of pop.... together wiv Pepsi and Dr Pepper, is a can of piss:eek2:... Irn Bru, Red Kola, Limeade, lemonade, Vimto, Cream Soda etc r pop, or, north of the border, juice. Wy? Cos they taste nice unlike Coke an Pepsi an Dr Pepper... Irn Bru having added function of helping wiv hangova of a Sunday morning:tongue:.. at otha times too but spesh in my case, a Sunday morning:eek2:...
...and here we wud call silly wee hat a beanie... me late pop (as in dad) called them a daft wee bunnet (bonnet) and refused to allow them in house until I got him Jambo 1... that wos nev off his bonce match days...
But woteva we call stuff is woteva we call them.. but woteva we call them is a mark of who we r... so from that perspective, I found ur wee post funny, observant and pertinent to our everyday lives...wereva we live.. and we lose who we r at our peril.. so u keep calling silly wee hat a toque, and soda piss pop... so it's dealt wiv ok?
O an btw.. Smarties and Choccie will always b Smarties an Choccie.. sweeties... me mum for some unaccountable reason calls sweeties toffess.. even choccie.. but she is from North of England.. ver odd peeps down ther.. luffly tho..
..lastly so ya kno... last Friday we broke for summer holidays... not summer vacation!!!! Am on me hols.... vacation is wot happens to the brains and faces of some peeps wen we try 2 make them undastand;)!! And am going away me hols (not quite the same tho it is really I s'pose...) to France on Sat morning.... not going away on vacation.. me hols, k:confused:
O an wile I memba.. Happy Birfday, Canada:love87:..