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Porch sitting is not just about sitting on a porch. Its about the socialization which is referred to by many reliable sources already found, as "porch sitting". A porch in the back of the house is called a deck, having the same purpose. It is also called a veranda, whose Wikipedia article even says "A veranda or verandah is a roofed opened gallery or porch." Dream Focus 13:51, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
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The last of these interested me, as a linguist, so I looked at the reference, which I have filled in here from the sketchy one that was in the article:
[...] keen and sober analysis of dialectal problems has especial value to students of American English — to us who have long been plagued by vacationers and front-porch-sitters with their random and haphazard jottings of quaint sayings.
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at position 12 (help)That certainly doesn't sound like a "recognized group", or a term of art of any kind, at least not in my field. And this is the only occurrence of "porch" in the review. Consequently I have removed the mention of linguistics. --Thnidu (talk) 18:43, 23 November 2017 (UTC)