This is not pronunciation but a spelling that blew my head apart: I was over 50 when I learned restaurateur does not have an N in it. It's a person who restores you, not someone who restaurants you.
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I…. Hmmmm
aug 31, 2025, 12:56 am • 2 0 • view
Either is acceptable; without the n is more common. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/r...
aug 31, 2025, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
Wait ... wut?
aug 31, 2025, 12:47 am • 8 0 • view
Right? 🤯
aug 31, 2025, 12:47 am • 9 0 • view
TODAY. YEARS. OLD.
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 15 0 • view
I once heard a college friend say “ep-i-tome” with a hard “o” and no accent aigu on the “e”and I thought, “She’s never heard that word spoken aloud.” I didn’t laugh because my mother had passed along all of her mispronunciations to me. 😔
aug 31, 2025, 2:13 am • 3 0 • view
Wait what
aug 31, 2025, 1:17 am • 0 0 • view
what
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 18 0 • view
what
aug 31, 2025, 12:49 am • 10 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 0 • view
You know what
aug 31, 2025, 12:50 am • 8 0 • view
what what what
aug 31, 2025, 12:51 am • 8 0 • view
Chicken butt
aug 31, 2025, 12:51 am • 6 0 • view
double what
aug 31, 2025, 12:49 am • 9 0 • view
What.
aug 31, 2025, 12:54 am • 11 0 • view
Wrong. It’s a person who owns or manages restaurants.
aug 31, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
Our kid told his fourth grade teacher he wanted to be a hotelier when he grew up and she said, “that’s not a word.”
aug 31, 2025, 12:52 am • 5 0 • view
And just for that, he should have the concierge loudly decline to reserve her a room when she eventually tries. It's the long game, but she deserves a little humiliation.
aug 31, 2025, 12:56 am • 5 0 • view
Oh my god! I had never spotted the lack of an N. Bloody hell Thank you for that lesson
aug 31, 2025, 12:50 am • 3 0 • view
Wait, so a restaurant is a place of restoration? Frigging French, man...
aug 31, 2025, 1:00 am • 4 0 • view
Wut?
aug 31, 2025, 1:15 am • 0 0 • view
It’s true
aug 31, 2025, 12:57 am • 0 0 • view