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Re: USAGE: Pop, smearcase, kolaches

From:Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>
Date:Friday, December 10, 1999, 4:05
L. Gerholz <milo@...> comunu:

> I suspect that "davenport" is a Dakotas thing. I'm still living in > Minnesota, and whereas I absorbed the word from my mom, I never actuall=
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> hear it around me, and I never use it myself. I also have a vague > recollection of hearing "davenport" as being from a particular furnitur=
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> manufacturer, but I could have just dreamed that.
dav=B7en=B7port (d=B2v".n-p=F4rt", -p=BDrt") n. 1. A large sofa, often co= nvertible into a bed. 2. A small desk. [From davenport, a small writing desk (obsolete) probably from the name of the manufacturer.] It's listed in the American Heritage Dictionary (1992) without any region= al citation whatsoever. It might be a generational term more than a regiona= l term. In my own life, the word died with my grandmothers. I don't know anyone living who uses it. Best regards, Jeffrey Henning http://www.LangMaker.com/ - Invent Your Own Language subscribe-dublexgame@onelist.com - Win $100 in the DublexGame contest! "If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed.... Oh, wait,= he does!"