Dear Dish on Chesterfields
Dear Dish:
What's up with the word chesterfield? How come no one uses it anymore? What's up with that? Does it only refer to beat up old crappy things from the '70s? That's what I think of when I think of the word. Can a new top-of-line pleather sofa be a chesterfield?
Sincerely,
A Couch Reformer
Dear Reformer
By definition, a chesterfield is a couch or sofa. So yes, a top‑of–the‑line pleather sofa could be referred to as a chesterfield. The appropriateness of using “top of the line” to describe a pleather sofa is another matter entirely. The term chesterfield is primarily a Canadian one and has been declining in popularity. This is no doubt because of the ever‑increasing influence the United States of America is having on our country. Dish blames Stephen Harper.
Let’s keep our Canadian roots intact! Let’s bring back the common use of the word chesterfield! Dish’s own mother is a fine example of unwillingness to bend to the whims of our influential neighbours to the south. She continues to use the word “chesterfield” regularly.
And while we are speaking of terms to keep in circulation, Dish highly promotes the use of “kitbag” as the preferred term for a school bag or back pack and the word “crunchits” as the preferred term for crunchy cheesies.
Embrace your culture.
Dish
posted by Dish @ 10:41 AM
3 Comments:
A chesterfield is actually a type of couch.
Not every couch is a chesterfield.
Actually, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines chesterfield as "any couch or sofa"; however, this usage is unique to Canada. In other places a "chesterfield" is specifically a padded sofa that has arms the same height as the back.
I dunno if you're allowed to question the Dish. She might reprimand you in a future blog entry. And not only that, her blog is backed and financed by the mob.
In the meantime, I will be content shopping for new furntiure.
When I sit on my new pleather chesterfield, I will think, nay, I will know, I've made it in the world. And life is good.
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