over here it is sofa ,settee is deemed to be common.
they say it is raining cats and dogs or like stair rods.
a miserable looking person is defined as "it looks as tho they have peed on a nettle!!
here [not where I originated] they say set meaning let or leased property, but pronouciaton is odd with Christmas being christMUS, station being statSHUN---------after 26 yrs I,ve got used to it!!!