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Originally Posted by guilloche
This is so funny to read! Some of these I've never heard, and some I still hear! My boss says "groovy" often, but usually ironically with a funny voice  .
My grandmother used to call our jeans, " dungarees". I've never heard another person refer to them that way in my life, including my mom (i.e. my grandmother's daughter). |
I have heard the term, but only out of people who live in the Upper Atlantic states. Connecticut, New Jersey, and thereabouts.
People I've known from Iowa call a couch (sofa?) a "divan" or a "davenport." I've never heard either of those words anywhere else, and the "davenport" lady was already a senior citizen in the 1970's.