Rowter or Rooter? (Merged)

Loopylou_4

pthompson wrote:

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?

I always say ENvelope (am from up north!) but have heard people in the south say ONvelope so just thought it was an area thing!

Rex_Mundi

Loopylou wrote:

I always say ENvelope (am from up north!) but have heard people in the south say ONvelope so just thought it was an area thing!

I'm a born and bred southerner, and I've always called it an envelope (en, not on).

cheapaschips_2

Root- er
On-velope
Scone as in gone not cone

Get it right you soft southern shandy drinkers.

Cheers
Cheap
(A Northern-er)

Mr_Skint_2

Router, properly spoken in the queens English is Rooooter (pro)

Its not Rowter thats a an Americanism, (Northern Numpty) :rotfl:

Benuk73

troo wrote:

Rooter


Americans say rowter.

same here funny how things are pronounced

Fran

I don't think I've heard a real person say router, I read (is that red or reed?) it as rooter by what it does (route).

perriless

It's a R -OO - TER......... a R - OW- TER is a carpentry tool. Route - a way to go - pronounced root - is where you should go.....!

BobToo

Rooter.

There's a guy at my work who says "jigabytes"

gizmoleeds

BobToo wrote:

There's a guy at my work who says "jigabytes"

:rotfl:...................

Backbiter

I've yet to have a conversation in which I had to use the word router - other than the woodwork tool - so I can't comment on what is the most common pronunciation, but I go with rooter because
a) it's linguistically consistent
b) I think we should try and resist creeping Americanisms as much as possible.

Someone earlier mentioned 'alternate' to mean alternative, which is just wrong, as it has a different meaning in English.
I am old fashioned enough to be bugged by the use of 'party' as a verb, which was never used when I were a lad in the 70s.