…and her well-crafted art of “doing the Internet.”
Seriously, Beffers, you ROCK my world. Eat this, Keith Johnson:
Oh! but you’re NOT wrong about the “dining room suit”!
7. A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes. “Two rogues in buckram suits.”–Shak.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
2. A group of things used together; a set or collection: a suit of sails; a suit of tools.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
From the greatness of Dictionary.com and a much more in-depth searcher than I, Ms. Beffertonian of Pocalla Swamp.
Seriously, THANK YOU. *Phew* Grammar Gods MUST stick together (especially when we’re all southern and such). Tee hee.
Ha! See… that’s the lovely thing about the English language. There’s more than one way to name a cat.