Monty by Jim Meddick for March 09, 2015

Pronounced “ray-sons deh-tra”: the reason for existence. And cringe she should.

Ew.

Monty should try raisin’ his standards for humor…

And yeah, to make the restaurant name funny, you have to pronounce “Raisin” like the dried grape…but hey…

It’s just a visual joke.

No worse than coffee-shops with cute-sy mispronounced names like “C-U-Latte”…and more inviting than than that perennial favorite…“Sam N’ Ellla’s”

la tea duh

In French, the word “raisin” just means grapes.

There is a small diner named “Squat & Gobble” in a town in Arkansas. I was just passing through, so I didn’t stop.

You said “Well you certainly didn’t take French at school. Click here, then click on the speaker icon, for the good pronunciation… No “s” at the the end of raison, and no “tra” at the end of être…”Perhaps you should listen again. There certainly is a “tra” at the end of être in that audio – the accent is on the first syllable but it it there.

For her it’s “Raisin Hell”.

@DOSQueen the French language does not put emphasis on any particular syllable in a word. If properly pronounced there is no ‘accent’ or emphasis on a given syllable. In fact It is the most common reason why some many french based words used in English are pronounced differently.

The “s” was a typo, but I’d stand behind the “tra” as an english speaker who can’t do a french accent. I took spanish in high school/college because everything is largely phonetic. My dad and grandfather spoke french because they’re Canadian/Quebecoise and would drop a lot of french into general conversation.

@A Common ’tater: You were right about the “s” at the end of raison, but there clearly is a “tra” at the end of être in the audio.

If you buy raisins on credit, you have a “raisin debt.”

Sorry – everyone is wrong. The correct pronunciation is “raison d’être”. I have trouble with figuring out how to say the phonetic descriptions of pronunciation. Probably why though I like the character Mimi in the strip Rose is Rose, I have difficulty in understanding what is written when she speaks. (baby talk).on another note – - – Monty has a DATE!

I like raisins, from time to time. But I don’t think I’d like a restaurant that was so utterly bound up in total raisinness. Sorry, Monty (you raisin freak!).