In Dutch suite is a French loanword, and I think it is in English too, so I'll go with the French pronunciation. Brits pronounce it sweet too.
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Regional Difference?
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Nope, it's "sweet" here.
"Sweet" in NJ, NC, & SC for me.
I have never heard someone say suit for suite
I've always heard it pronounced "sweet".
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Sweet for me. A suit is something a man wears, not a room! lol
Suite is "sweet" for me!
Crazy Ohio people
J/K.
Crazy Ohio people
Must be a regional thing, around here it's always pronounced "sweet".
Sweet - that's how it's said in the hotels here in SE Asia. But locals slip up and do say suit like the clothes.
I pronounce it sweet too.
Suite="Sweet"
Kinda like *route*...is it like "root"? Or like "rout"??
Kinda like *route*...is it like "root"? Or like "rout"??
It's pronounced "sweet" down here when you're refering to something like a hotel suite.
Here its pronounced suit. Aparently Im the only one on here that pronounces it that way.
I don't know the etymology of route in English, in Dutch it's another French loan and therefore pronounced the French way (kinda, we do pronounce the silent e at the end).Originally Posted by catloverin_ks
Suite="Sweet"
Kinda like *route*...is it like "root"? Or like "rout"??
edit; I got curious and grabbed my OED:
route /ru:t/ origin; Middle English from Old French rute (road)
suite /swi:t/ origin late 17th century, from French, from Anglo-Norman French siwte
Then it gets interesting, for more info on origin you get pointed to suit. Apparently the words suite and suit have the same origin, they both mean "something that belongs together" , a suit is a bunch of clothes that belong together, a suite a bunch of rooms.
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Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45
Suit is something you wear
