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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-11 11:47 PM
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How do you pronounce route?
And then, how do you pronounce "router" (as in cable/computer router)

Just curious.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-11 11:49 PM
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1. rowt, except for root 66
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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-11 11:52 PM
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2. Good point.
It just doesn't sound right otherwise. It musta been the song or something, yeah?
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-11 11:54 PM
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3. must be
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suninvited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 12:00 AM
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6. Get your kicks
on Route 66.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 11:40 AM
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14. I say 'root' for all road-type routes (guess I'm more susceptible to pop culture
than you :) ) but I use rowt for all other uses...
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 03:25 PM
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29. I also.
Edited on Wed Oct-05-11 03:25 PM by hifiguy
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-11 11:56 PM
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4. Root, rowter
:shrug:
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 01:09 AM
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7. +1
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 11:33 AM
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13. Ditto.
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 02:07 AM
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9. +2
:shrug: :hi:
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 05:13 AM
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10. +3 n/t
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 12:09 PM
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17. +4
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 12:47 PM
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21. +5
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-11 11:59 PM
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5. Sounds like rout (nt)
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 01:15 AM
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8. Just like "boo-TAY", 'cept not so enjoyably.
Edited on Wed Oct-05-11 01:15 AM by MiddleFingerMom
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Hope that helped, Doo-WAY 157099.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:27 AM
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12. + 1 brazillion!
You crack me up, MFM!!

:hi:

Bake
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 06:18 AM
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11. ROOT. Like in the song "Route 66"! And the other is "ROWTER," like in "BOW-WOW."
Newsflash: Many words have diff3erent pronunciations for the identical or similar spellings.

The archer took a bow with his bow.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 11:57 AM
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15. Depends.
On the coasts, "root". In between, "rout".

The hardware is always a "rout-er".
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 12:07 PM
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16. sometimes rowt, sometimes root, but always rowter
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 01:12 PM
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25. +1
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 12:26 PM
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18. verb's always rowt. noun's indifferently root or rowt depending on my mood:
i think my spontaneous speech tends toward root and my contemplated speech tends to rowt
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HERVEPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 12:35 PM
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19. Reut , rowter
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 12:44 PM
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20. Rowt, but also Root.
Rowt for "route"
Root for "en route"

Oh, and Rowter for "router" :)
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 12:50 PM
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22. I used to pronounce it Raut, but since I'm probably going to move to Cda someday, I begun using Root
The rest of the world and most of the northeast uses Root.

I also came to the realization I was saying Root 66 all these years. Why just for that particular highway and none of the others?

I don't know of any other pronunciation for Router except for rauter.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 12:54 PM
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23. Mostly root (Route 66), but occasionally rowt (I wouldn't go that route).
Always rowter.

(SoCal born & raised. Lived all my life within 50 miles of L.A.)
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 12:59 PM
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24. root
Edited on Wed Oct-05-11 01:00 PM by LynneSin
:D

because rout sounds like out with an r in front of it.
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 01:17 PM
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26. As a noun ...
"root", as a verb "rowt". A "rowter" (router) for either the computer peripheral, or the tool for hollowing out wood.
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Rochester Donating Member (486 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 01:21 PM
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27. Rowt, even for 66.
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 03:23 PM
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28. Usually root,
but when I was a kid I had a paper rowt.
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