[plug] Routing

[Clive Woodward]

Mike,

Then how do you pronounce that machine woodworkers use for milling shaped 
grooves: Router? I've never heard these machines called 'rooters'.

There's no such thing as consistency in the English language ;-)

BTW, I hate fries, backwards baseball caps and zee. But I always think of 
'rooters' as a nickname for prostitutes :-)


Clive.

At 22:47 Monday 21-08-00 +0800, you wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Colin Rothnie wrote:
>
> > about, but I guess his pronunciation was more correct than the commonly 
> used
> > (at least for me) "rowters".
>
>remember the kids who said the alphabet "... eks, wye, zee"?  Know folks
>who order "fries" instead of chips, and wear backwards baseball caps?
>   The only plugger authori[sz]ed to say "rowter" would be J. Miller, on
>account of him being a septic and all :)
>   Eh ... tomayto/tomahto, but a route is a route, be it on the road or the
>'net, so please at least be consistent.
>
>--
>Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
>                           --==--