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

I'm shamefully late to this, but I have OPINIONS!

[brandywine28]

To me, these three words are all interchangeable! However, any American under the age of one hundred who uses "settee" with a straight face is almost certainly going to be unforgivably pretentious.

Re: I'm shamefully late to this, but I have OPINIONS!

[pensnest]

Whereas here, it's more likely to mean the speaker is more than eighty years old, I think. I will never stop discovering subtleties in this language we almost share.