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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

Show threadM. Grégoire12h 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

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@mpjgregoire Mostly couch here. Never sofa.
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