The cover is starting to look like restaurant signs that are constantly misspelled.

" Despite its close relation to : restaurant, there is no : n in restaurateur, either in its spelling or in its pronunciation." : )

You totally rock! Incorrect spelling on the cover of ANYTHING is a crime against humanity. Okay, fine, maybe not that severe, but still pretty damn serious.

what unbreakable said to what cartouche said!

unspeakable, is what it is!

for shame editors! for shame!

I didn't know that, but after looking online it seems that both are acceptable, although restaurateur seems to be more accepted. I've always pronounced that word with the "n". Learn something new every day. Thanks.

You can blame Canada Cartouche - go figure.

I just checked the Canadian Oxford Dictionary and they include under the definition of restaurateur (also restauranteur) with the note: The spelling restauranteur is considered incorrect by many, though accepted by others because of it is increasingly common. You just know someone in the PTB is going to claim the increasingly common usage excuse on this one. But great catch.

Now please excuse me while I go vacuum off the dust that fell when I dragged my dictionary off the shelf. :)

Rated for righteous wordy indignation.

A designer must have done it. A book designer told me once that you're never a designer until you mockup a cover and spell the author's name wrong.

Don't get me started. I have a whole list of commonly misspelled words on OS. One that particularly irritates me is "publically." There is no such word people!

hahahahaha ~ I swear - I don't work here.

Uh, WHAT cover? ;-D



I can't believe the editers mis-spelled restaurateur.


Ray-ted.

I sure wouldn't want to spell that word! Glad to see you're on top of this cartouche...I can't imagine what OS would do without you and I mean that with all sincerity.

Restaurateur? Yes. Always.

You tell 'em, Cartouche.

Rated

I was once told by another writer that I should work on my "grammer." I took no more advice from her.

Good on you, Cartouche.

"restaurateur" is a French word. Restaurant is also a French word that has slipped into English. The correct English signifier for a restaurant owner should be restaurantER. It is the "u" that trips up most people, making them read the word as "restaurat-oor", totally wrong. I used to use "innkeeper" when I was reviewing restaurants, even though an inn is not strictly a restaurant (being rather a b&b for travelers), however historically the first eateries, both in France and England were inns on much travelled roads. The original such place still exists in Vonnas as La Mère Blanc some 130 years after it was opened by the current owner Georges Blanc's great-greats.

Patricia, I remember this happening at least once before and I left a comment about it at the time. It's probably the longest French word that I can actually spell!

I didn't know this, and I are an editor!

Good catch P! I actually like finding signs and headlines that are a bit off...makes us all seem more human.

one of my captures is here.

=)

As Johnny Carson used to say, I did not know that.

And here one of my favorite pastimes is looking for typos on restaurant menus.

It ain't right.

Thanks for bringing this to their attention. :)

speaking of misspellings, there's a place by my house that describes, in the menu, the club sandwich as a double dicker.

top THAT.

I think The RestauRANTer© is the best food critic's name ever.
Or... RestauRANTing for the column. Though, I guess it's applicable for it to be "RestauRATEing."

Then again, I always try to find the sunny side of things, especially because I'm somone who who can't use the word "restaurateur" without feeling like a douchebag.
I'm not so hot with "barista" either.
I'm just not cosmopolitical enough.
::rimshot::

Eventually, people like me end up writing brochures for vacuum cleaners.

Spelling errors on the cover of a writers' blog. (snicker). Of course, I would have had to reach for the dictionary before using the word (ah, but I would have at least reached for the dictionary...)

You walk with the gods, Cartouche.

you go girl. one of my biggest peeves!!!!!!!

"The correct English signifier for a restaurant owner should be restaurantER. It is the "u" that trips up most people, making them read the word as "restaurat-oor", totally wrong. I used to use "innkeeper" when I was reviewing restaurants, even though an inn is not strictly a restaurant (being rather a b&b for travelers), however historically the first eateries, both in France and England were inns on much travelled roads."

This comment doesn't advance the ball. Let's start sentences with capital letters, let's properly punctuate, and let's use the preferred spelling of words, e.g., traveled.

Thanks, Cartouche. This error, hardly the first on the part of those wro write S and OS headlines, was identified by me earlier, but it's obvious you have a wider readership. Congratulations!

Oops.... (blushes)

you're like Canute ordering the tide not to come in

but I'm on your side, 'touche

How about rest-a-ranter? I like that one 'cause it's a double, um entendre, I mean, dubble entong-alongle, er, it means two things at once.

You are my very smartest friend ;0)

Damn Strate!!!! It's 'cause fuck'n squirrils can't fuck'n spell and stuff, and why I stil hunt'm! We serve em at the DINER! For DINNER! Prepared by the COOK! Who owns the PLACE! I once sasked her, "How come you don't call this place a resaurant?" She replied, "Then what'd that make me?" I was afraid to say.

I would put a smiling emoticon here, but blumenthal may come after me. So, I'll just say thanks.

You mean you still read the cover?!

Even I picked up on this, and I'm functionally illiterate. (Gee, I hope I spelled illiterate correctly.)

I happpenn to likkk the coovver the waye itt is.

Sticklers rule!!!
R

I wish you'd stop writing such long posts.

According to numerous sources restauranteur is also acceptable. Theoretically restaurateur is "more formal" but as so often happens in the evolution of the spoken word, this distinction has blurred. If anything it appears that restaurateur is becoming less frequent in print with the other form more dominant, suggesting that eventually restaurateur will eventually become obsolescent.

Nice to see some very long lost friends here. What a pleasant surprise.

That's a squirrelly spelling... or did the editors mess it up?
I didn't read..............

You rock!

Definately.

:-P

But there is so much of this that it is impossible to stop, once we have started pointing them out. True, it is disconcerting, as someone said, to see this sort of thing on the cover of a site for writers, but we have become such an illiterate society as a whole.....

One of my favorites, particularly as it relates to retailers, the Mom 'n' Pop sort, anyway:

Parentheses around a word, in order to emphasize a specific quality, such as reading about something made with "real" whatever, which, to me, hints that there is an implied wink, suggesting that it is not real at all. Also, do you like to drink ice tea, or the iced variety? Please bring me the latter. And, after you have brought it, please hold it, and spot me, in case I should fall from it.

Go, you, Cartouche! Don't let them get away with such sloppy work.

Apocra, I think you mean quote marks, not parens? And yes, that one makes me nuts, too.

Cartouche, you are da bomb. Or maybe the bombeur. Although that would worry Homeland Security too much, so forget I said that.

Good spotting!

What Roy said - though I'd never be clever enough to say what Roy said, not first anyway.

Dammit, it should be "freedomrant".

I've been somehow writing that word a lot, and can finally spell it. Now this word? RESTAURATEUR? Ha! I'm going to bookmark this post, just so I can copy and paste.

I expect nothing more from the OS Cover. Misspellings are the least of the problems.

I'm for the underdog here. In this case and in this space that's those of us who have certain pet words we repeatedly get wrong; that's spelling, meaning, everything. I have a lot of these pet words. I have to use spellcheck for Teusday, or is it Tuesday? When I worked in a newsroom the sub-editors used to march right up to me and yell: "Can't you at least make some different mistakes". When I saw this post I immediately felt guilty like I do when I'm in a store and there's a security guard and he's stalking me as if...

Okay, okay, I don't actually like spelling errors. I have a visceral reaction to those made by others. I'm still for the underdog though, I think everyone has one.

Good catch, though I don't look at the cover long enough to notice these things!

It's a little known fact that Restaurant originally had no n either (or is it "neither?" Maybe the n from neither moved over to restaurat and became restaurant...) but once people no longer enjoyed eating with rats at their eating establishments they started to become squirmish about eating in a RestauRAT. So someone borrowed an N and stuck it in there. But the guy who runs the joint is a rat so restauRATeur stuck. This is my reality and I'm sticking to it.

I'm with ya! And it's "flutist," not "flautist"! I know cuz I checked. Unless you have flatus--then it's an entirely different story.

Another example of the dumbing down of America. One editor at a time. Good catch, but it's a undersize and you may have to throw it back.

xo BL4

I feel vindicated on this! They finally got it right on my last day!

Im so uset to dealling with misspellings its not even wurth pointing them out altho its' funn to ply with wurds in these enviromentals!