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Journal Ethelred Unraed's Journal: A test of your intelligence 26

Journal by Ethelred Unraed
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.

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  • because I said so.

  • Route (Score:2)

    by Tet ( 2721 ) *
    a) Root
    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...

  • I just checked... (Score:3, Funny)

    by WIAKywbfatw ( 307557 ) on Sunday April 04, 2004 @08:35PM (#8764779) Journal
    According to Google [google.com], it's "woot" and "wooter".

    Yes, I could just be the funniest person (that goes by the alias WIAKywbfatw) in the world.
  • On whether I'm talking to a smart or a dumb person.
    Which are you?

  • depends (Score:2, Interesting)

    by heliocentric ( 74613 ) *
    Consider the word "route".

    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.
  • I would route (rowt) traffic, whether network packets or vehicles. If network traffic, I would do that by means of a rowter.

    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.

    • I'm a TN boy myself, but I call the things that nourish a tree, "roots". When I hear "ruts", I think of the deep tracks where large off road vehicles have driven over a muddy field.
      • I know what she means -- she pronounces it with a short "oo", like "hoof" (i.e. closer to "huff" than "hooof"). I also sometimes say "root" like it rhymes with "hoof"...OK, so I come from Appalachia, what can I say?

        Cheers,

        Ethelred

  • "Route", as in pathway, is "root". "Rout", as in flight from battle, is "rawt".

    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
    • Oy, are you trolling me?

      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
  • Depends upon how much whiskey I've had tonight.

  • 'Route' is pronounced 'root'.
    'Router' is pronounced 'rooter'.
    'Rout' is pronounced 'rowt'.
    'Rough' is pronouced 'ruff'.
    'Rought' is pronouced 'rawt'.

    Yay for English! :)

    -MT.
  • Depending on the country you're in, either o ne can be pronounced either way.

    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 :-)

  • If you really want to confuse non-native speakers of English, have them read this poem [i18nguy.com] out loud.
  • route = root.
    router = rowter.

    Rawt sounds too much like kraut, but rooter is someone who cheers for something. :-p

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