What happened to the n in restaurateur?
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What happened to the n in restaurateur?
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Re: What happened to the n in restaurateur?
#2Fascinating history - I didn't realize that restaurants were so recent.
But language evolves to follow common use, and "restauranteur" is also correct:
Re: What happened to the n in restaurateur?
#3This is wild, I have read this word many times but never consciously noticed that there is no N there. I would have bet money that "restauranteur" is the more common spelling in practice, but I'm completely wrong: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=restaurateur%2....
Re: What happened to the n in restaurateur?
#4Fascinating history - I didn't realize that restaurants were so recent. But language evolves to follow common use, and "restauranteur" is also correct: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/restauranteur
The term is recent. Places where you can pay for food are ancient.
Re: What happened to the n in restaurateur?
#5This is wild, I have read this word many times but never consciously noticed that there is no N there. I would have bet money that "restauranteur" is the more common spelling in practice, but I'm completely wrong: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=restaurateur%2... .
I'm sure it's on every cookbook/restaurant/food editor's list of top things to correct.
Re: What happened to the n in restaurateur?
#6Fascinating history - I didn't realize that restaurants were so recent. But language evolves to follow common use, and "restauranteur" is also correct: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/restauranteur
The term is recent. Places where you can pay for food are ancient.
I was thinking about that... Is there a distinction between a restaurant where you can order specific dishes (made to order?) vs a place where you just got whatever is available?
Re: What happened to the n in restaurateur?
#7Do they also ask for the meaning of entree in this test?
Even Miriam Webster has a note that Americans mistakenly use it for main course (completely incorrectly) because French sounds fancier.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entr%C3%A9e#:~:te...
Re: What happened to the n in restaurateur?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The term is recent. Places where you can pay for food are ancient.
I was thinking about that... Is there a distinction between a restaurant where you can order specific dishes (made to order?) vs a place where you just got whatever is available?
Not anymore in english, because the second went basically completely extinct except a few location- or activity-specific exceptions like food trucks and sport concessions.
Re: What happened to the n in restaurateur?
#9This is just begging the question! So "restaurateur" was first, but did "restaurant" get an "n"? Why isn't it "restaurat"? The reason is that in French (ultimately from Latin) "-ateur" means "person who" and "-ant" means roughly "ing". So a "restaurater" is someone who restores and "restaurant" means "restoring" (i.e. a restoring soup, subsequently place).
Re: What happened to the n in restaurateur?
#10Since we are talking about spelling, it is "hors d'œuvre" and not "hors d'oeuvre".
On macos: Option + q for œ