How do you pronounce the word "suite"?

It’s usually pronounced as sweet, at least here in NorthEast of US.

In England, we say “sweet”.

That’s what I thought. I mean, how can they create commercials that mispronounce it? It’s so annoying..

It has always been “sweet” for me.

Why add the extra “e” if it still sounds the same?

definitely “sweet”

@eambos: /shrug

sweet

If you have to pronounce it very quickly, or immediately, then it’s toot-sweet.

As above: sweet.

When you say “I am in Suite 23”, then it’s pronounced “sweet”, HOWEVER, when you say “The suite of cards I need are hearts”, then it’s SUIT.

@Mr_M Pardon, except that it’s suit of cards. Unless you are pronouncing it like a little suit – a suit-ey. Soot-ee.

I’m betting BOTH spellings are correct?? Google “suite of”??

Actually, I did Google it, and cards come in a suit, not a suite.

When I type in “suite of” it autocompletes to “suite of cards”??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suit_(cards)

Fluther doesn’t interpret the last parenthsis – you have to add it.

That’s because you typed it in stupidpedia. try dictionary.com

also (sōōt) A set of matching furniture: a dining room suite.

ARGH! They are not right!!!!

I am now prejudiced against that dictionary. :P

Look, come up to my place and I’ll explain it. I live in a suite (pronounced:sweet), we’ll play with a deck of cards, which has 4 suits (pronounced the same as what goes with a tie); and then we’ll get something to eat later, right away (in French it’s “toot sweet”).

It is most definitely pronounced “SWEET”. Suite is a French word meaning a series or collection of things.

I doubt very highly you’ll hear a single French person pronouncing the word “Suit”, unless they are mocking toothless hick Americans.

They are wrong, and should be ashamed of themselves.

O.O

O.o

I would rather decline, kind sir, for I am a damsel far too suite to be caught in your sweet.

Er…

Uh..

@Zen – When I come over, may we listen to my favorite suite of music?

@bananafish Mais Oui!

…okay, but first I must update this suite of software on my computer!

@bananafish Meet you over there>>> when you’re ready. I’m hanging out at Youtube.com/Leonard Cohen anything is fantastic by him.orgy

I wore a business “soot” (suit) when I inspected the office “sweet” (suite).

That suits me just fine, just help me get the soot off the suit, sweety, I can’t go into the suite like this, now can I? Suits me just fine, I think.

@Zen LOL

In Alabama it should be SUUUUUWWWEEEEEEEET

@DragonFace lol, that’s how they propose there, right?

I am from the west coast where the word “suite” is pronounced “sweet.” But I moved to North Carolina several years ago where most people pronounce it “suit.” I do a lot of work with the furniture industry and all of the furniture people refer to a bedroom suite as a bedroom suit. Very strange! But they have many strange pronunciations here in the south. For instance there’s an old-money area of town called Buena Vista. Out west we’d pronounce that as BWAY-nuh Vista. But here they say BYOO-nuh Vista.

I too was in the furniture business for a while. I was in Georgia when I sold my first bedroom suite, and I was told I was “yankifying” when I pronounced it “sweet.”