Date:  Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:53:40 -0800

From:  David Robertson <net091[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RISCY.SFCC.CTC.EDU>

Subject: Re: "smathered", "cobbed", etc.



   Thank you all for "cobbed" information; I'm learning far more about

it than I'd dreamed I might. Funny how even a linguist doesn't

necessarily always notice peculiarities in close family members' speech.



   Quite the informal survey going on here. May I chip in another

term? Spokane people, and no one else I've ever spoken with, often call

a couch / sofa a "daveno" pronounced [daev[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nou], with initial stress. My

sense is that it's old-fashioned as I never hear people under about 50

years old use it. Does this term show up elsewhere?



   FYI, those who don't say "daveno" here say "couch"; nobody here says

"daveno" for the nearby small city of Davenport, WA.



   Dave