Davenport is a long couch. Or a city in Iowa!! LOL My daughter and her husband lived in Davenport. Davenport and Des Moines are the two towns in Iowa that are often mentioned in books and on TV. I find that interesting I guess.
Anyway back to the American English language!! LOL I pity anyone trying to learn our English. We have a lot of things that make no sense.
My son had a learning disability and would write everything phonetically. So I got to thinking about words that don't sound the way they are spelled
Once--wuns Easy - (long)Ez