Words you never use?

[Birdjaguar]

I stopped using Davenport
I'm not fond of a lot of the new verbs like "deplane"

 

[amadeus]

I stopped using Davenport
I'm not fond of a lot of the new verbs like "deplane"

I think “Davenport” needs to be used to describe a specific type of sofa, namely one that has some plaid yellowish-brown design. It also needs to reside in the basement or rumpus room of the house, sheltered away from civil society despite being both comfortable and a timeless piece of kitsch art.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Wait so Davenport is the American Chesterfield?

 

[Birdjaguar]

@hobbsyoyo What's a Chesterfield?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It's Canadian for couch. I think it was or is a specific brand, but like kleenex, it's become generic. It may also be a specific style of couch and not just the brand but I'm not 100% on that.

Edit:
I've used Canadian like a language twice now and no one has been triggered and that really grinds my gears.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's Canadian for couch. I think it was or is a specific brand, but like kleenex, it's become generic. It may also be a specific style of couch and not just the brand but I'm not 100% on that.

Edit:
I've used Canadian like a language twice now and no one has been triggered and that really grinds my gears.

You hoser!

 

[AmazonQueen]

It's Canadian for couch. I think it was or is a specific brand, but like kleenex, it's become generic. It may also be a specific style of couch and not just the brand but I'm not 100% on that.

Edit:
I've used Canadian like a language twice now and no one has been triggered and that really grinds my gears.

Actually English, a deep-buttoned sofa, usually leather, with arms and back of the same height.

 

[Tee Kay]

This question is a bit of a paradox. If I knew them, I'd probably use them.

came here to say this tbh

 

[Gori the Grey]

I use all my words.

In fact "disused" is one of my very favorite words. So if I ever don't use a word for a while, I just consider it disused.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Chesterfield means couch in Canadian and in the process of figuring that out, I was outed for liking a Nickelback song and I've never come back from that.

I've never used it. The word is "couch" and I don't use the word "sofa" (it seems so fancy and pretentious).

My grandmother used the word "chesterfield" a time or two, and at first I had no idea what she was talking about.

None of these are words in my daily vocabulary anyway, since I don't own one.

I don’t use the word “bemused” because it means confused and not amused but I don’t like explaining that.

Something can be both confusing and amusing at the same time.

N word and cigarette were never really used here much anyway.

First one in a children's rhyme in the 80s (eeny meeny miney moe).

I heard it in the '60s, as it's a rhyme my grandmother used to say to me. Years later, I told her not to use it anymore, because people would consider her racist.

Cigarette word early 90s high school. You don't really hear it any more except maybe in old school jokes at port. Usually used to deliberately offend.

So much for old WWI songs... (it refers to cigarettes)

I stopped using Davenport
I'm not fond of a lot of the new verbs like "deplane"

*instant reminder of the introduction to Fantasy Island*

It's Canadian for couch. I think it was or is a specific brand, but like kleenex, it's become generic. It may also be a specific style of couch and not just the brand but I'm not 100% on that.

Edit:
I've used Canadian like a language twice now and no one has been triggered and that really grinds my gears.

"Canadian" is a mix of other languages, and some words and expressions have become uniquely Canadian (witness the title of the current Rants thread). Some words and expressions here are regional, found in some parts of Canada but not others.

 

[Hygro]

Tremendous

Very few people were using it before the current President. I had used it only twice on this forum prior. All these folks afterward so anxious about the rise of Donald Trump and immediately fell into the gravity of his language. Might be a better way in the long run as I occasionally think to use the word and generally say “immense” instead and will be maintaining this association consciously for years to come.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I rarely use scuttle. I never use scupper.

 

[Patine]

I stopped using Davenport
I'm not fond of a lot of the new verbs like "deplane"

Whataboutism, Leftist, Rightist, and Strawman come immediately to mind, unless I'm chastising others for using them.

 

[Patine]

It's Canadian for couch. I think it was or is a specific brand, but like kleenex, it's become generic. It may also be a specific style of couch and not just the brand but I'm not 100% on that.

Edit:
I've used Canadian like a language twice now and no one has been triggered and that really grinds my gears.

Only for a certain size of couch. Living in Canada, I am a bit of a casual authority on the issue.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I rarely use scuttle. I never use scupper.

How about scarper? That's one of my favorites.

 

[Patine]

Tremendous

Very few people were using it before the current President. I had used it only twice on this forum prior. All these folks afterward so anxious about the rise of Donald Trump and immediately fell into the gravity of his language. Might be a better way in the long run as I occasionally think to use the word and generally say “immense” instead and will be maintaining this association consciously for years to come.

VERY FEW people? You need to broaden your social circle and those you know of by reference and public reputation.

 

[Hygro]

VERY FEW people? You need to broaden your social circle and those you know of by reference and public reputation.

I know thousands of people.

 

[Robo-Star]

What words do you use so infrequently that you forget they even exist? Like if you heard the word, it stops you for a second as you try and figure out if it's a real word?

reconnoiter

 

[Patine]

I know thousands of people.

Not enough people who used the word "tremendous," before the Orangatang danced into the White House, obviously.

 

[amadeus]

I've used Canadian like a language twice now and no one has been triggered and that really grinds my gears.

I knew this Canadian guy and he would swear up and down he didn’t have a Canadian accent. He did, and it was very pronounced.

I wasn’t even making fun of him, but he did say aboot and hewse when he would talk about his house.