Rowter or Rooter? (Merged)

Rex_Mundi

Just interested to see how the different pronounciations split between members.

pthompson

BobToo wrote:

Rooter.

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

He's not alone: In 1985 Doc Brown pronounced "gigawatts" as "jigawatts" in the film Back To The Future.

Hunnymonster

Assuming you're talking about the networking device, it's a "rooter" - if it's the woodworking tool it's a "rowter" - unless you're american - in which case I spurn you as I would a rabid dog

scheming_gypsy

Backbiter wrote:

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.

does !!!!!! instead of !!!!!! annoying you as well ? cos it doesn't half do my head in.

scheming_gypsy

cheapaschips wrote:

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

Get it right you soft southern shandy drinkers.

Cheers
Cheap
(A Northern-er)

Rooter
En-velope
S-cone

Cheers
Gyppo
(A Northern-er (or should that be a him))

Chippy_Minton

Careful! People are spelling one pronunciation as 'Row-ter', when they really mean R-out-er because the Row in Row-ter can be pronounced in two ways:

1. Row as in a quarrel or a loud noise. In this case Row-ter does sound the same as R-out-er.

2. Row as in row the boat. This gives Ro-ter or Rota!

BTW I say Rooter. R-out-er is for Americans who think the English language and its pronunciation is totally logical (it is mainly but there are lots of exceptions that prove the rule). Hence, because the word 'out' is pronounced 'out', they think router is logically 'out' starting with an 'r' and ending 'er'.

Couple more examples of this:

They say Mos-cow - logical, given the 2 separate words.
We say Mos-co

They say Pot-ay-to, Tom-ay-to - logical
We say Pot-ay-to, Tom-ar-to

Genghis

Tiz a bit like pronouncing that place in Anglesey .. I pronounce it:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Americans can't.