Suite

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12/13/2010 11:42:37 PM

just ask brent

12/13/2010 11:49:30 PM

He didn't answer his phone

12/13/2010 11:50:17 PM

sweet

12/13/2010 11:50:19 PM

dude

12/13/2010 11:50:29 PM

suite

12/13/2010 11:50:56 PM

dude

12/13/2010 11:51:39 PM

dewd

12/13/2010 11:51:49 PM

suit.
You live in a suite when you're in college.
Your bedroom furniture is a suit.

12/14/2010 12:09:27 AM

12/14/2010 12:10:44 AM

spelled suite.

pronounced suit.

12/14/2010 1:13:52 AM

^

12/14/2010 1:29:30 AM

not really though

12/14/2010 1:51:33 AM

pres suite

12/14/2010 1:58:13 AM

Quote :

"spelled suite. pronounced suit."

Quote :

"suite [sweet or, for 3 often, soot] Show IPA –noun 1. a number of things forming a series or set. 2. a connected series of rooms to be used together: a hotel suite. 3. a set of furniture, esp. a set comprising the basic furniture necessary for one room: a bedroom suite. 4. a company of followers or attendants; a train or retinue. 5. Music . a. an ordered series of instrumental dances, in the same or related keys, commonly preceded by a prelude. b. an ordered series of instrumental movements of any character. 6. Computers . a group of software programs sold as a unit and usually designed to work together"

12/14/2010 4:44:00 AM

suite.
You wear a suit at formal events.
Your bedroom furniture is a suite.

This is one of those things that everyone in the south decided to pronounce incorrectly. See also: "Reese's" being pronounced as "REE-SEES"

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 8:41 AM. Reason : .]

12/14/2010 8:39:54 AM

I've heard "suit" plenty of times, but it's pretty dumb. Whenever I hear the same word in the same usage in a different context—a suite of tools, a suite of services, a suite of stories—it's pronounced correctly. Furniture salesmen must be morons.

I mean, you also hear a lot of people say "an historic event," and many of them insist that's proper, but it's not. It's obviously wrong and stupid on the face of it.

12/14/2010 8:42:53 AM

you're an historic event

12/14/2010 8:49:29 AM

ugh, I hate "an historic."

I also hate people who try to "correct" grammar involving Me vs I type stuff when they are wrong. I guess because my wife is a new grad she seemed like an easy target but she had someone try and correct her grammar out loud at work in a meeting one time. She said something structured along the lines of "she told him and me..." and some know-it-all said "it's supposed to be 'he and I' not 'him and me.'" She then schooled him (politely) but I don't think he knew at that point that one of her degrees was in English. He still didn't believe her until after the meeting when she pulled it up online for him.



[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 9:41 AM. Reason : .]

12/14/2010 9:28:00 AM

i have never ever heard this pronounced incorrectly and i have lived in the south my entire life. so would they say "on suit" instead of "en suite"?

12/14/2010 9:38:06 AM

I read this and though "sweet, duh"

Then I realized I say suit. >.<

12/14/2010 9:41:40 AM

where are you from, out of curiosity?

12/14/2010 9:46:18 AM

Georgia

12/14/2010 9:50:21 AM

hey remember that FK thread about piff

12/14/2010 9:51:37 AM

yeah that shit was mad funny

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 9:55 AM. Reason : even if the word turned out to be "pith"]

12/14/2010 9:55:12 AM

Edited for content:

Quote :

"I stopped at the gas station this morning to buy myself an orange juice. Decided on Everfresh, 'pure 100% orange juice' it said, right there on the label. Glass bottle. Looked like good stuff. I used to be a really picky eater. I decided I'd try to get over it, and part of getting over it was learning to love pulp in my orange juice. We all know about pulp. I see some heads nodding out there. Let me tell you the secret about pulp: no one really likes it. No one PREFERS pulp. You ever seen someone turn down pulp-free orange juice? Fuck no you haven't. 'Oh, none for me, thanks. I like a little pulp.' You can't even SAY that word without feeling a little hate for it. 'Pulp.' No one turns down pulp-free. They don't make little accessory packs of pulp to pour into your pulp-free. It's not like iced tea, there aren't any pink or blue packets of pulp to pour in there. But pulp does one thing well, and that thing is that pulp tells you your orange juice is natural. Pulp shows you that, fuck, there was an orange involved in the process somewhere along the way. And we've all seen oranges, right? There's pulp in there, oh yeah. That's why you don't eat them, am I right? The only kids you ever saw eating oranges in school were the ones who couldn't afford apples. The kids who got free lunch. They had to settle. But this Everfresh I got, it's got this new thing. Okay, well, I guess it's been a part of oranges for hundreds of years or whatever, but it's new to me. It's new to me in my fucking juice, all right? PITH. That's right, PITH. A word—I don't know how they did it, but a word that is somehow even more hateful than pulp. Can you believe that? Say it, you'll wanna choke the guy next to you. PITH. But this pith, it's that white stuff in the orange. It's the stuff—this is even worse than the pulp, this pith is the stuff that holds the pulp together. It's totally sub-pulp. If there were a caste system in your orange, if this orange that went in my bottle of juice here was India, pulp would be like sudras, and pith would be the fucking Dalit fucking achuta untouchables. Pith...pulp won't even TALK to pith. Pulp avoids eye contact with pith, tries to hurry out of the restaurant before pith sees it and comes over to its table. So I've got this white shit, this PITH, sitting in this bottle of otherwise delicious (if pulpy) orange juice, and what am I gonna do? I can't drink it, 'cause the pith is touching it, but to throw out a good quarter of a bottle of juice? Maybe I should send it in for a refund. That should go over, shouldn't it? 'I'll put up with pulp, but you've gone too far with the pith.' Listen to me, this is absurd. This is absurd comedy. Pulp, pith, these nonsense words. These absurd words. Is this thing on? Hello? Hello? PITH. Have you seen this?"

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 10:02 AM. Reason : ...]

12/14/2010 9:59:47 AM

i think it was funnier with piff

12/14/2010 10:55:30 AM

I think you are right, but this was a necessary exercise.

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM. Reason : Vintage 2005, people.]

12/14/2010 10:58:08 AM

I buy all my furniture individually anyway.

12/14/2010 12:54:59 PM

Quote :

"This is one of those things that everyone in the south decided to pronounce incorrectly. See also: "Reese's" being pronounced as "REE-SEES""

I was born and raised in NC and the very first person I met that called them "re-seas" was when I was 21. That person was from California... granted they had grandparents in NC, so maybe that's what did it.

Maybe it was because I grew up in the E.T. generation. Everyone knew Reese's Pieces. You'd have to be drinking the water pretty far downstream to call them re-seas pee-seas.

12/14/2010 1:00:35 PM

bttt because the person that sits next to me at work now says Fustrated instead of Frustrated

[Edited on December 15, 2010 at 8:46 AM. Reason : .]

12/15/2010 8:46:39 AM

it's a tough call but i'm gonna rule that that belongs in the workplace annoyances thread

12/15/2010 8:48:12 AM

Yea I debated that since it has to do with someone at work but dealt with a pronunciation.

12/15/2010 8:49:59 AM

it's cool, no flag on the post, just a useful post-mortem

12/15/2010 8:52:06 AM

had an ex-girlfriend that refused to use the ñ in jalapeño.



used to drive me absolutely insane when she would order "halapeenos."

12/15/2010 9:12:57 AM

holla pain yo

12/15/2010 9:18:12 AM

I love pulp. I prefer pulp. I seek the OJ labeled "high pulp." Unless I know it's pure fresh OJ it better have at least a little pulp in it or I don't want it. Pith, on the other hand, I can do without. That shit's bitter.

12/15/2010 12:34:29 PM