[plug] Routing

[jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au]

My way of saying rowter (routers) is when I'm in the US, but down under you root everything form hardware to software (ha ha).


> ** Original Subject: RE: [plug] Routing
> ** Original Sender: Bret Busby <bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au>
> ** Original Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:19:56 +0800

> ** Original Message follows... 

>
> 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?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Bret Busby
> 
> .......................................

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> 

Jon L. Miller
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