Comment on Help me remember a "back-to-back chaise longue" from TV or film

morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• DavLemmyHav@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Actually, its the correct spelling. “Longue” in french means long. Its more precisely, the feminine adjective for long. In this context, where the chair (“chaise” in french) is long, it fits the name well.

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  • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it was a joke? Difficult to tell on the internet!

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    • jak@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not a joke.

      In English the term “chaise longue” is sometimes written as chaise lounge and pronounced /ˌtʃeɪsˈlaʊndʒ/, a folk etymology replacement of part of the original French term with the unrelated English word lounge.[2] When English speakers imported a new kind of sofa from France in the late 1700s, they transformed the name ‘chaise longue’ (“long chair”) into ‘chaise lounge’—since ‘lounge’ is an English word spelled with the same letters and lounging is something one can do on a “chaise longue.” This variant has been documented in British[3] texts since at least 1811 and in American texts[4] since 1824.[5]

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      • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Huh, TIL!

        I’ve never seen/heard anyone call it a chaise lounge in the UK. Or maybe I’ve seen it written like that and just assumed it was autocorrect.

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  • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TIL.

    I also assumed they were misspelling “lounge”

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• meekah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I bet you think it’s “aluminum” as well

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I bet you think British spellings are inherently “superiour“.

    Aluminum is the name chosen by the discoverer, by analogy from the mineral alum. Chemists choose chemical names, not English grammarians.

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    • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, that’s what the person who discovered it wanted to name it. By that logic, “alumium” would also be a valid term. However, anybody with common sense, back then and now, understands there is value in extending the ending to conform to the pattern of "-ium"s, like sodium, potassium, lithium, etc. All metals discovered since 1811 have that ending.

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      • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And what value is that? Describe it please.

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