Rowter or Rooter? (Merged)

withabix

Back to Linux...

Don't a lot of people pronounce it as L-eye-nux because they all remember Linus from Charlie Brown???


Time to get up...now where's my pants.....?

I'd also better go to the bathroom that's got a bath in it, rather than an American bathroom which hasn't.

onzey

Perhaps there are some other, rather odd spellings for the word router because I overheard two people the other day, I assume discussing the pronounciation of the word, and one spoke of "the f in router" but the other disputed this saying "there is no f in router only a mode m". (I guess "mode" must be some linguistic term).

Trow

I am born and bred UK and I have never heard it called anything other than Rowter. Rooter to me sounds peculiar.

Oh well!

pthompson

While my American colleagues call it R-OUT-ER, they acknowledge that it's only called that in USA. So they'll often call it a ROOTER when visiting our English or other European offices (or insist on R-OUT-ER to wind us up!).

BTW, what's the consensus on the pronunciation of ENVELOPE? I reckon it's ONvelope (as in the French "envelopper"), but I hear a lot of ENvelopes too. Is that another AmericaniZm?

gizmoleeds

pthompson wrote:

BTW, what's the consensus on the pronunciation of ENVELOPE? I reckon it's ONvelope (as in the French "envelopper"), but I hear a lot of ENvelopes too. Is that another AmericaniZm?

I hardly ever hear anyone say ONvelope, and I always say envelope.

Toxteth_OGrady

garidge - UK North

gahrarge - UK South

gurarge - USA

The list is endless.

:cool:

TOG

Bossyboots

I haven't read all the posts here so sorry if this is already somewhere else.

I hadn't realised before that that the router we use for our internet we pronounce as "rooter" but the router that my OH uses for woodwork we call a "rowter".

wolfman

Bossyboots wrote:

I haven't read all the posts here so sorry if this is already somewhere else.

I hadn't realised before that that the router we use for our internet we pronounce as "rooter" but the router that my OH uses for woodwork we call a "rowter".

Yeah I mentioned that earlier too. Someone sounded like they got it spot on though.

A network router "routes" packets too and from machines (as in to send or forward). Hence saying "rooh-ter".

Whereas a woodwork router "routs" as in digs a groove. Hence calling it a "rowt-er".

You're basically dealing with two verbs "route" pronounced "rooht" and rout pronounced "rowt", and simply turning them into a nouns by adding "r/er" to the end.

Jay-Jay_4

So how do you pronounce Audi?


Audio?



***runs away***

JimArnold

yes I also uses rooter for IT and rowter for woodwork - yoe can make a mess of a network with the wrong one !