Davano for davenport

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

Davenport was the usual term for that piece of furniture in the 1960s and 70s in Portland Oregon. Daveno was simply a shortened form of that . Heard it all the time.
Fritz Juengling

>>> wendalyn at NYC.RR.COM 09/30/02 03:54PM >>>
Anyone--Joan?--familiar with "davano" as a short form of "davenport" in
regional American speech? (Sorry, I only own volume 1 of DARE.) I'm doing
some work for a British publisher and remembered my grandmother's "davano"
when I was correcting their entry for "davenport." She was born in 1911, in
Nebraska, of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, and moved to Montana in her
twenties. This is the same woman who called parmesan '/par MEE zhun/
cheese', so I'd like to know if "davano" is just another example of her idolect.