[plug] Routing

[Bret Busby]

Clive Woodward wrote:
> 
> 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>
> >                           --==--

The 8th edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, shows the
pronunciation of route, as being rute, and, in military usage, rowt. The
pronunciation of rout is as rowt. The device used by woodworkers, a
router, is from the root word rout (interpretation number 2), and the
pronunciation of router, is specified, as being as rowter, so it is
different, in usage, and, in pronunciation, to route.

Any other offerings on the subject, or, similar, snickering
conversations, children?

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Bret Busby

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