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DavLemmyHav@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think it was a joke? Difficult to tell on the internet!

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- jak@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
TIL.

I also assumed they were misspelling “lounge”

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