so i lit a fire

[pensnest]

Do you sit on

a couch
a sofa
a settee
something else in the same line (no fair saying 'a chair')?

Do you perceive any difference between these three things? Can you define it?

Comments

[bethctg]

I sit on a couch. I *want* to sit on a sofa because people in books I read as an impressionable youth always had sofas. (I now believe they are the same, tho'.) Settees are fancy museum quality pieces of furniture and not meant to be sat on unless it is a special occasion.

[pensnest]

It's so interesting getting the different responses! There does seem to be general agreement that settees are fancier than the others.