My husband is very particular on what you call things around the house. Some of it is due to his years in the furniture business and some of it is just his own preference. Like it is aluminum foil not tin foil.
The table in front of your couch sofa is NOT a coffee table it is a cocktail table. That one took me FOREVER to call a cocktail table just so he would stop correcting me. Also we have a sofa and love seat not a couch, as you can see I still call it couch. Couch! Couch! Couch!
However the subject of outdoor chaise lounge chairs came up over the weekend while lounging around out in the sun. Yes you can marvel at the fact that we are able to lay out in the sun, it is ok you can be jealous I won’t mind. We get a good month of fresh spring air before the humidity threatens to choke us to death.
Anyway so the question is how to YOU pronounce chaise lounge ? The two most common ways I’ve heard are “Chase” and “Sheiz”. I myself have never actually pronounced it in front of anyone because I wasn’t sure the correct pronunciation. I have always believed it to be pronounced “Chase”.
Tell me is it “Chase” or “Sheiz”?
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natasha says
I pronounce it “Chase” and that is the only way I have heard it said. I have NEVRE heard of a coffee table being called a cocktail table in my life. All my furniture that are not chairs or recliners are couches. And Aluminium foil will ALWAYS be tin foil, even if it is not made of tin.
Lauren @ Hobo Mama says
Well, just to blow your mind, it’s longue, not lounge. Chaise longue is French for “long chair.” You can listen to the pronunciation here: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chaise%20longue I imagine the French is something like shez long, but then again, I never took French. 😉
I only ever hear Americans pronounce it something like shace lounge.
Cocktail table is a new one on me. And I didn’t realize “sofa” was more elegant than “couch,” though I was actually recently wondering that very thing. I vary between the two but never have distinguished one as being “right.”
alissa apel says
I’ve always said, “Chase”. I’m one of those that says, “Couch” though. 😉
Kia @ A View From Here says
As Lauren says it’s Chaise Longue (maybe you can correct the website that is linked and tell them LOL)
My pronunciation maybe off but I’ve always said it as Chay-zzz long.
I just call foil foil these days, partly because I know it’s not really tin and so don’t want to call it that and partly because aluminium (I from England so we don’t say aluminum LOL) is just too long to say every time.
While I was growing up the thing we sat on was called a settee, I use the word sofa now though.
I too have never heard a coffee table referred to as a cocktail table, however Wikipedia (so it must be right of course) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_table says that cocktail table is another name for a coffee table.
PinchingAbe says
I agree — say it like Sh-e (short e) z (zzzzzz) It is most definitely French in origin. This is high school and some college French classes speaking 🙂
We fight over whether it is soda or pop. It’s pop!
Colleen (Shibley Smiles) says
LOL no it is soda!!!!!!!!!
But to be fair up until I was 7 it was always POP!
patdee says
No, it is called “cold drink” heehee. Prior to moving to Chicago in the 40’s, NO one said (raised in Tampa, Fl) “pop” or “soda”. I heard the word “pop” the first time upon arriving in Chicago. They, of course laughed at my “cold-drink”. I laughed at their “Pop”. Later I moved to Ft Lauderdale, Fl, which basically has NO “natives”, but more often than not I heard “soda”. I again laughed at them LOL. They returned the favor. Heehee.
As far as the word Chaise: in 80 yrs (25 of which I travelled and taught all over the US and some of the world), I NEVER heard the word pronounced “Shez” EVER. UNTIL today. I was watching a man (Norm Abram on “New Yankee Workshop” and he was building a “chaise lounge” and he pronounced it “Shezz”.
Thus why I sought to see whether he was wrong (since I laughed at him lol). It appears that he is correct. But I will say this, I would have been understood more in 80 yrs on this planet pronouncing it as “Chase”, than I evah would pronouncing the stupid word “Shezz”. Heehee. ‘Course I say “horse-DE-oooovers” too. lol. But only as a joke while teaching. Truly, it gets a big wakeup laugh during a sleepy afternoon full of students after they have stuffed themselves at lunch. LOL
Thus, i will continue to say it that way and let the miniscule few who know how to say it correctly, “laugh” at me. LOL Of course I will continue to laugh at them. Heehee
And I will laugh at Miriam, and tell her to stick it where the sun don’ (I know its “don’t” but it is easier to say “don” lol) shine! heehee.
pat