follow suite >> follow suit

[James Harbeck]

OK, I've just been corrected. For some reason, when I was young, I
learned the spelling "suite" for the sets of cards -- I always
understood that it was spelled "suite" but pronounced "suit." I'm
quite sure I read it that way in one of the books that was formative
for me as a youth, but I can't check, because I've lent my copy. At
any rate, Mark Mandel has been so good as to point out that I've been
wrong all these years! (No doubt I had seen it spelled "suit" before,
but the people who do things like poker standings and ads aren't
people you trust absolutely in spelling matters, and it's not
otherwise often written down.)

So never mind! And now I know why it wasn't mentioned.

James Harbeck.

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