tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403642865904161814.post5515932894300695882..comments2023-10-17T05:19:48.148-04:00Comments on Rose-coloured: Slackers and singlesRebecca Rosenblumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859985178895250412noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403642865904161814.post-29419060038361985982010-04-09T13:26:08.979-04:002010-04-09T13:26:08.979-04:00Gillian,
To me "couch" and "sofa&q...Gillian,<br /><br />To me "couch" and "sofa" are interchangeable, but "chesterfield" is a baffling, unsuable word (American parents).Rebecca Rosenblumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10859985178895250412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403642865904161814.post-37060560770083224532010-04-09T12:34:23.008-04:002010-04-09T12:34:23.008-04:00chesterfield, couch, or sofa?
Just wondering.
Gill...chesterfield, couch, or sofa?<br />Just wondering.<br />GillianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403642865904161814.post-77825061509193709402010-04-08T10:56:23.256-04:002010-04-08T10:56:23.256-04:00So the word "skid" exists in pockets all...So the word "skid" exists in pockets all over the country, in some schools common, in some nonexistent?! What is the carrier of this term from one area to another? How does it travel so capriously?<br /><br />Fabulous.Rebecca Rosenblumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10859985178895250412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403642865904161814.post-17448759642569809082010-04-08T07:41:30.882-04:002010-04-08T07:41:30.882-04:00"Skids" was the standard term at my scho..."Skids" was the standard term at my school as well and I hear it so rarely now that I had begun to think it was particular to my time and place--Saskatchewan in the 1980s. Evidently not.Kate S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16897618197257393697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403642865904161814.post-48975863919735930362010-04-07T23:45:45.008-04:002010-04-07T23:45:45.008-04:00If you stand in the bathtub rather than on newspap...If you stand in the bathtub rather than on newspaper, the cleanup is easier still.Andrew Shttp://ajsomerset.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403642865904161814.post-37763053809302119792010-04-07T21:28:14.581-04:002010-04-07T21:28:14.581-04:00Oh man! I was totally going to say "skids&qu...Oh man! I was totally going to say "skids". Well, I was going to say "it depends; if they were skateboarding, then skaters. If they were poor, then skids," though the kids I knew as skids were already smoking in elementary school and dropping out in high school. And I'm from Waterloo, not Toronto, so. <br /><br />Also, on government forms I'm single, because they have the same definition as your mom.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10258010408377004291noreply@blogger.com