
Journal Ethelred Unraed's Journal: A test of your intelligence 26
We will now commence testing your intelligence.
Consider the word "route".
Is the correct pronunciation root, or rowt?
Consider the word "router".
Is the correct pronunciation rooter, or rowter?
Discuss.
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Correct answers will be provided at the end of the exam. Those who fail the test will be shot by the God-Emperor Edward Not-the-Confessor, but not before the year 2050.
root & rowter (Score:2)
Route (Score:2)
b) It depends on context. "Rowter" if you're talking about a device for shaping wood. "Rooter" if you're talking about a device for shifting packets, or for determining the best choice of roads to take to get from A to B.
The correct pronunciation is unambiguously given in the OED...
Re:Route (Score:1)
I just checked... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, I could just be the funniest person (that goes by the alias WIAKywbfatw) in the world.
Depends (Score:2, Funny)
Which are you?
depends (Score:2, Interesting)
Is the correct pronunciation root, or rowt?
Depends on if you are talking about the highway, or the flow of traffic. To me the highway is root and to direct the flow is rowt. Thus, "Traffic was 'rowt'ed onto 'root' 15 around the accident on I-83."
Consider the word "router".
This has always been "rowter" just like the power tool.
Re:depends (Score:2)
Re:depends (Score:1)
Re:depends (Score:1)
Re:depends (Score:1)
Unless you're dealing with a plumber, oh, wait, that's Roto Rooter [rotorooter.com].
Re:depends (Score:1)
At my house we eat everything on the pig - from the rooter to the tooter.
Mmmm, sliced pig's snout (Score:2)
Imagine having a slice of pig snout, with the holes still in it, and you see what they are referring to.
The first time I heard of that, I laughed myself silly...almost sounds like something from the Far Side...
Cheers,
Ethelred
Routers (Score:2)
However, I would get my kicks on Route 66 (Root 66).
Being a Southerner, however, if I were referring to that part of a tree that grows underground, I would say "ruts." Just to confuse things a bit further.
Re:Routers (Score:2)
Re:Routers (Score:2)
Cheers,
Ethelred
Hmm (Score:2)
I do tend to read "router" as "rawter", but I don't think I've ever been in an actual conversation that used the word.
I sincerely hope that no one explains what kind of power tool a "router" is. There are some things I'd rather remain ignorant about.
Just the other day, some Slashbot asshole casually mentioned that internal combustion explosions occur in something called the "carburetor" rather than the "engine" which was
Re:Hmm (Score:1)
I Sincerely hope that no one explains what kind of power tool a "router" is. There are some things I'd rather remain ignorant about.
Well, you asked for it. A router digs out the surface of metal or wood with a spinning bit. It's also useful for edging things, and creating joints... etc.
Just the other day, some Slashbot asshole casually mentioned that internal combustion explosions occur in something called the "carburetor" rather than the "engine" which was my previous understa
Route, or router... (Score:2)
Ask an English person (Score:2)
'Router' is pronounced 'rooter'.
'Rout' is pronounced 'rowt'.
'Rough' is pronouced 'ruff'.
'Rought' is pronouced 'rawt'.
Yay for English!
-MT.
Re:Ask an English person (Score:2)
Re:Ask an English person (Score:2)
-MT.
Re:Ask an English person (Score:2)
When you're routing packets, yes. When you're routing wood, it's pronounced "rowter".
Depends on the country, not the context (Score:2)
So this is actually a test on your pariochalism, not intelligence :-)
Well, actually, it is a test on your intelligence - if you start a holy vi-vs-emacs type war over this, you fail :-)
Re:Depends on the country, not the context (Score:2)
Shhh! I'm trying to start a flamewar here!
Cheers,
Ethelred
English is an inconsistent language (Score:1)
my answers (Score:1)
router = rowter.
Rawt sounds too much like kraut, but rooter is someone who cheers for something.