God Bless Elizabeth…

…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.

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1 Comment

  1. Julie O'Malley June 17, 2004 at 10:40 am

    Ha! See… that’s the lovely thing about the English language. There’s more than one way to name a cat.