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🇨🇦 Canadian Word of the Day: Chesterfield

In many parts of Canada, a sofa or couch is still called a 'chesterfield.' This term, largely archaic in the UK where it originated, held on firmly in Canadian English for generations. Not to be confused with the cigarette brand. #Canada #CanadianSlang #WordOfTheDay #Chesterfield

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chesterfield

Apr 3 at 9:01pmWeb
Show threadM. Grégoire5h ago

@Canadian_Eh Do Canadians still say "chesterfield" though? I remember my mother using the word back in the 1980s, but I haven't heard it from her lips or anyone else's in decades.

(Here in #Québec, in English, I hear sofa about a third of the time, couch two-thirds.)

#chesterfield #CanadianEnglish

Show threadRob Johnston 🍁4h ago
@mpjgregoire @Canadian_Eh I'd still say it when back in the Maritimes, but here in Upper Canada I doubt it would be widely understood.
Show threadSharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦2h ago
@rjohnston @mpjgregoire Heh - Upper Canada :)
Show threadJohn Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️2h ago
@Canadian_Eh @rjohnston @mpjgregoire I'm just going to start bombing d14 with "chesterfield" references and help secure its future. Excellent memory formation at this age.
Show threadM. Grégoire1h ago
@Canadian_Eh @rjohnston
We used to call Ontarians "Upper Canadians" when I was at St.F.X.
Show threadStella C 🇨🇦13m ago
@mpjgregoire @Canadian_Eh @rjohnston I haven't heard chesterfield for a long time - sofa.
Show threadSharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦2h ago
@mpjgregoire Mostly couch here. Never sofa.
Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦2h ago
@mpjgregoire @Canadian_Eh I heard, and may have used, the word in the 70's. But not thereafter.