Rowter or Rooter? (Merged)

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  • withabix
    withabix Posts: 9,508 Forumite
    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.
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  • onzey
    onzey Posts: 830 Forumite
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    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).


    :D
  • Trow
    Trow Posts: 2,298 Forumite
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    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
    pthompson Posts: 152 Forumite
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    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
    gizmoleeds Posts: 2,232 Forumite
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    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.
  • garidge - UK North

    gahrarge - UK South

    gurarge - USA

    The list is endless.

    :cool:

    TOG
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  • Bossyboots
    Bossyboots Posts: 6,756 Forumite
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    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
    wolfman Posts: 3,225 Forumite
    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.
    "Boonowa tweepi, ha, ha."
  • Jay-Jay_4
    Jay-Jay_4 Posts: 7,351 Forumite
    So how do you pronounce Audi?


    Audio?



    ***runs away***
    Just run, run and keep on running!

  • JimArnold
    JimArnold Posts: 519 Forumite
    yes I also uses rooter for IT and rowter for woodwork - yoe can make a mess of a network with the wrong one !
    TANSTAAFL !
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