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Rowter or Rooter? (Merged)
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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.British Ex-pat in British Columbia!0 -
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).0
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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!0 -
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?0 -
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?0
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garidge - UK North
gahrarge - UK South
gurarge - USA
The list is endless.
:cool:
TOG604!0 -
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".0 -
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."0 -
So how do you pronounce Audi?
Audio?
***runs away***Just run, run and keep on running!0 -
yes I also uses rooter for IT and rowter for woodwork - yoe can make a mess of a network with the wrong one !TANSTAAFL !0
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