Re: CHAT: living conditions/conditionally Re: Miscellaneous Nonsense

> From: Steg Belsky
> Subject: Re: CHAT: living conditions/conditionally Re: Miscellaneous
> Nonsense
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:47:11 -0500 "Thomas R. Wier"
> <artabanos@...> writes:
> > >     In a space approximately 16 feet by 10, I have a bed, a chest
> > of drawers,
>
> > I've always wondered about the distribution of this phrase -- "chest
> > of drawers".
> > My mother uses it, but I've always used "dresser" or "bureau".  Are
> > there any
> > dialects this is associated with?
>
> > ======================================
> > Tom Wier   |     "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero."
> > ======================================
> -
>
> Well, in my family we always used it, (and the "of" is always just [@])
> but we also use "dresser" (but never "bureau").  A [tSEst@'drOrz] is
> thinner (about a yard wide) and taller (coming up to about
> shoulder-height).  We have two of those at home, and my parents also have
I may be dating myself here, but this was also sometimes called a "highboy".

> shoulder-height).  We have two of those at home, and my parents also have
> a ['drEs@r], which is shorter (about waist-height) and wider (about two
> and two-thirds yards wide) and what's important is that it has mirrors
> sticking up from it, to use when you're getting *dressed*.
That's a "dresser" alright.  Although I'm familiar with the term "bureau", I
never knew whether it referred to a "highboy"/"chest of drawers" or a
"dresser"

David

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