{"id":528,"date":"2009-02-28T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/bedroom-suit\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T18:05:08","slug":"bedroom-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/02\/bedroom-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;bedroom suit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard this phrase a lot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is not a &#8220;suit&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat the heck is a &#8220;bedroom suit&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, what is a &#8220;living-room suit&#8221; or a &#8220;dining-room suit&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I am kidding.<\/p>\n<p>I know what these phrases mean.<\/p>\n<p>I know what the people who say or write them are doing.<\/p>\n<p>They are mispronouncing or misspelling the noun that means <em>a furniture set, most particularly the set of furniture necessary to furnish one room<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That noun is &#8220;suite&#8221; &#8212; NOT &#8220;suit&#8221;! Talk about NOT <em>Hooked on Phonics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For fun, I searched Google for each of the following (with the quotation marks, to avoid variations) and got about the indicated numbers of matches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;bedroom suit&#8221; &#8212; 9,980,000 matches<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;bedroom suite&#8221; &#8212; 9,520,000 matches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This tells me that Web authors have favored the <em>incorrect<\/em> noun over the <em>correct<\/em> noun by a ratio of 1.05-to-1, which is horrible!<\/p>\n<p>I believe that the favoring of &#8220;bedroom suit&#8221; over &#8220;bedroom suite&#8221; is consistent with my &#8220;Devolution toward Simpler&#8221; linguistic hypothesis. It is simpler to write and pronounce the four-letter, one-syllable &#8220;suit&#8221; than it is to write and pronounce the five-letter, 1.5-syllable &#8220;suite&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;bedroom suite&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard this phrase a lot. Problem: It is not a &#8220;suit&#8221;! Explanation: What the heck is a &#8220;bedroom suit&#8221;? For that matter, what is a &#8220;living-room suit&#8221; or a &#8220;dining-room suit&#8221;? Okay, I am kidding. I know what these phrases mean. 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