Who’s got divan knowledge?

Sofa or divan? Is there a difference? Doesn’t matter. “Divan” is one of those words lost to the standardization of just about all our terms for everything. Goodbye old words. When I was a child I pondered “sofa” versus “divan.” Sofa sounded softer, but we usually said divan. (I’m cutting back on quotation marks.) I thought maybe it was because our diva...

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