Herb - Now Aluminum

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Random832 <random832 at ...> wrote:
>
> > montims:
> > while we're ranting...
> > How on earth did "chaise longue" become "chaise lounge" in America?  At
> > first, I thought it was just a common seller's spelling error, like the
> > greengrocer's apostrophe, but I've heard it pronounced as lounge in tv
> > programmes and furniture commercials.  It doesn't even make sense that
> > way...
> 
> 
> Spelling error + Never heard of it + Folk etymology.
> 
> Or even Never heard of it + Folk etymology + "that can't be right" 
> (nucular is often said to be derived from a pseudo-etymology of "new 
> killer")

Geoff:
That explains why I met "lounge" in an item by a US writer recently and 
wondered whether it was a printer's error.

Personally, I am quite happy with a plain "settee"!