Is It A Suit Or A Sweet?

@squinney,

I would refer to a suite (sweet) of furniture for the master suite (sweet).

As in, even with the different meanings I'd still pronounce both as "sweet."

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@sozobe,

that's how i've always heard it and used it too, the definition makes sense, but i'll probably not change

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@squinney,

I've not heard the word spoken as 'suit', but I'm away from watching commercials and have never bought a matched furniture set.

Sweet question though, didj.

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@chai2,

debacle, now there's a word I used to say incorrectly...

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@djjd62,

I am single, so I don't wear either one.

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In northern Louisiana it is pronounced sweet. I don't know about southern Louisiana. I can't understand half of what the cajuns are saying anyway.

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@JPB,

JPB wrote:

joefromchicago wrote:

Setanta wrote:

Nuh-uh . . . i've heard ad announcers on television from Illinois stations say "bedroom suit."

Indeed. "Suit" is common downstate. "Sweet" is common in the Chicago area.

Downstate? Do they count?

Only to ten.

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@sozobe,

sozobe wrote:

I would refer to a suite (sweet) of furniture for the master suite (sweet).

As in, even with the different meanings I'd still pronounce both as "sweet."

Okay. I'll let you be wrong once. Very Happy

I can't imagine furniture having it's very own suit (sweet)!

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@djjd62,

Raised in GA. Always said bedroom "suit." But, when staying in a hotel, it's a "sweet" of rooms...

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@djjd62,

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now every canadian i know pronounces the word suite so that it rhymes with sweet

suite doesn't rhyme with sweet. It sounds like sweet.

suite rhymes with tweet.

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@JTT,

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@ossobuco,

Now that's much better than just poking your cursor on a hand symbol, Osso. Congratulations!

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@djjd62,

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what say you, A2K

"Sweet", always.
But now that I think about it, that's a pretty strange thing to call a bunch of bedroom furniture! Why do we do that? Confused

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@msolga,

I'm particularly fond of the term "en suite". An elegant french term now used to say you have a toilet attached to your bedroom.

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@msolga,

Suite comes from suivre, which means to follow. Therefore, one of the meanings of suite is things which go together, things which "follow" one another. So, if you have a bedstead, mattress and box springs, it "follows" that you will also want a chest of drawers.

Although why you would put your drawers on your chest is beyond me.

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@dyslexia,

Oh I love "on sweet"!
It sounds so flash, so stylish! Smile

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@Setanta,

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Suite comes from suivre, which means to follow. Therefore, one of the meanings of suite is things which go together, things which "follow" one another. So, if you have a bedstead, mattress and box springs, it "follows" that you will also want a chest of drawers.

Ah! Now I know!
I should have known someone informative would turn up here & educate us! Smile

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Although why you would put your drawers on your chest is beyond me.

Indeed, a very silly place to put them, I would have thought!
Maybe it's only done in some cultures, though?

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@msolga,

There is also ensuite which means "then" in the sense of immediately afterward, immediately following. (There are other versions of "then" in French, used in different contexts, such as donc, which means then as we mean it when we say "Well then, alright.")

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@JTT,

Thank you, my pet.

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@squinney,

squinney wrote:

The context is what decides, according to my retail furniture sales/management background.

You buy a suite (suit) of furniture for your master suite (sweet).

Same here.

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