Talk:Couch

message: Does anyone know the origin of the word "couch"? 24.177.175.169 (talk) 01:30, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I've merged Loveseat into this article, I put up the suggestion a while back and got no opposition to it, just thought I'd let you know †he Bread 07:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loveseat Merge 

message: Does anyone know the history of the laws regarding the couch tags that say, "Do not remove under penalty of law."  I've been trying to figure out why couches have them, but could find nothing as of yet.
It's mostly intended to be followed by retailers, as a Customer Protection because of Truth in Advertising Laws. Don't worry! As The End-Consumer, you can do anything you want to your Couch, lol. 71.233.230.223 (talk) 01:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Couch tag

message: Is that really necessary? 203.132.67.134 10:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is one of the most irrelevant pieces of trivia I've seen in Wikipedia. It has nothing whatsoever to do with couches and I'm removing it. Angela. 14:12, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tom Cruise?! 

message: wow. would someone take a look at this?
it's atrocious. 
Itsallaroundus (talk) 17:03, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  developing 

message: What is this section and what relevance does it have? It should definitely be removed..  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.195.184.117 (talk) 04:02, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Couch the game? 

message: Various editors seem to have sprawled all over this article to no great effect. Hakluyt bean (talk) 21:55, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rucked Up 

message: According the definition at the beginning, the second photo is not a couch (it's just a single chair, for seating one person).  I'm removing it, but someone could add another one? Smin0 (talk) 01:13, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second photo is not a couch 

message: * Etymology of "sofa"
:Category:Furniture
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ar:صفة (شريعة)
be-x-old:Кушэтка
bar:Ottoman
bg:Диван
cs:Gauč
da:Sofa
de:Sofa
es:Sofá
eo:Sofo
fr:Canapé
ga:Tolg
ko:소파
io:Kanapeo
it:Divano
nl:Zitbank
nds-nl:Banke (meubel)
no:Sofa
pl:Tapczan
pt:Sofá
ro:Canapea
ru:Софа
sq:Kanapeja
simple:Couch
fi:Sohva
sv:Soffa
ta:சாய்வு இருக்கை
te:సోఫా
th:โซฟา
zh:沙發
Institutinalized (talk) 13:39, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: Please change "The term canapé is commonly used also in Greece and Cyprus, for fans of Greek and Cypriot Football teams Panathinaikos and Omonoia.They tend to sit on the couch and watch Olympiakos, APOEL and Anorthosis play in the UEFA Champions League." to "The term canapé is commonly used also in Greece for fans of Greek team Olympiakos. They tend to sit on the couch and watch Panathinaikos play in the UEFA Champions League" because historically Panathinaikos has given many more international games than any other Greek team and especially more than Olympiakos.
62.103.215.199 (talk) 14:01, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from 62.103.215.199, 16 September 2010 

message: The article sais 
"The term canapé is commonly used also in Greece and Cyprus, for fans of Greek and Cypriot Football teams Panathinaikos and Omonoia.They tend to sit on the couch and watch Olympiakos, APOEL and Anorthosis play in the UEFA Champions League."
The truth is the exact opposite. The term is used only for Olympiakos fans who sit on the couch and watch arch-rivals Panathinaikos play in all european competitions, while Olympiakos is either eliminated earlier, or eliminated from August.... The fact that Panathinaikos has played more games in all European competitions than Olympiakos is undoubtable and can be confirmed by a brief research in UEFA history.
Ak200969 (talk) 14:48, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Ak200969, 16 September 2010 

message: The term canapé is commonly used also in Greece and Cyprus, for fans of Greek and Cypriot Football teams Olympiakos and Omonoia.They tend to sit on the couch and watch Panathinaikos, APOEL and Anorthosis play in the UEFA Champions League.
The information is wrong. Correct it with the upper add-on.
ChriskLGate13 (talk) 15:26, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from ChriskLGate13, 16 September 2010 

message: English, Irish and Scottish migration to South Australia over nearly 175 years has brought different spoken terminology to the vernacular. Couch is the main older Australian word used but English and Scottish settlers from the 1950s onward use the term settee. Offspring from these settlers use a variety of terms, namely couch, sofa, lounge and less often, settee.  The term sofa is not generally used in South Australia though it appears in furniture catalogues so may appear in the younger gererations' vocabularies given time. Gradual media-influenced Americanization of Australian English may see some words soon becoming acceptable when they were scorned in the past.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trevorheywood (talk • contribs) 10:18, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Australian terms 

message: Also known as an ottoman? Since when? If that's the case, why do we have a separate article for Ottoman? Suggest either we remove this from the first line or merge pages. 81.100.244.9 (talk) 11:07, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: An ottoman is also known as a hassock, a well-cushioned footrest often used with an armchair. Watch the start of Private Benjamin where she complains that the ottoman isn't quite mushroom colored enough. She's picking it up. Even after boot camp she would not have been able to pick up a sofa.
100.15.127.199 (talk) 22:12, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ottoman 

message: In the beginning of the article it says "A couch, also called a sofa, is an item of furniture designed to seat more than one person and providing support for the back and arms"
Towards the end of the page the caption reads "A single seater couch". This poor excuse for a couch also does not feature support for the arms.
Clearly one of them is incorrect. Thought I would post here rather than removing the picture of the monstrosity of a couch. Adam BSR (talk) 23:10, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition change? (or maybe just the third picture ) 

message: The definition of "couch" has been interpreted too broadly in this article. A couch or sofa is an upholstered piece furniture that can seat at least two people, made for sitting or lying down upon. The word "couch" is from French (couche) originating in the verb "to lie down" (coucher), and "sofa" is from Turkish for carpet or a divan (suffa). --- If the piece of furniture under discussion here is not upholstered, or at least padded, and made for comfort, it's not a couch -- it's something else. The photo of the wood and cane Portuguese settee in this article is not a "couch" and I don't know anyone who would call it that. Also, the chaise longue, designed for one person, is also not a "couch". --- I plan to remove these two images from this article soon. Comments? Charvex (talk) 09:35, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: go by the sources174.114.11.60 (talk) 13:55, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Images: settee and chaise longue = couch ???

message: Does anyone outside Germany know who Loriot was? A more relevant caption perhaps ... 79.213.11.5 (talk) 11:10, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Couch of Loriot? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Does anyone else find the idea that "sofa" is not used in American English quite bizarre? It's used all the time. It's used regularly in the vernacular, and is also the term in the furniture industry, where I work. There is a subtle difference in how the terms are used, but they are both used constantly. I wanted to ask for comment from other Americans before changing the article. 12.118.186.226 (talk) 16:16, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Reply to myself: Well, I just asked two people at work, both Americans, and they both said they grew up calling it a "couch" and maybe occasionally a "sofa" but didn't really start using "sofa" regularly until they started working in the furniture industry. I should also note that I grew up partly in the UK. Any other Americans want to comment? 12.118.186.226 (talk) 16:24, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: American here. I grew up using sofa but I know that some people here also say divan.
100.15.127.199 (talk) 22:12, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of sofa in American English 

message: It is supposed to point to an entry for chesterfield suite on Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chesterfield%20suite), but it instead links to The Free Dictionary's listing for couch.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.153.30.218 (talk) 17:30, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Link: Reference 11 has incorrect URL 

message: English was around the world for a long period of time 116.240.51.119 (talk) 10:28, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  English