Only because of that song. And here if you want your mail delivered, you refer to “US Highway ABC” or “State Route XYZ”. If you just say Route 23, the assumption is SR23, not US23. And it’s “rowt”.
Don’t pay any attention to those Brits. Look how they pronounce “Worcestershire”. Can’t even pronounce their own language. From: ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 4:12 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] rooter? Route 66 is pronounced root 66. Routing a circuit board is r-outing. From: Brett A Mansfield Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 2:40 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] rooter? I have a good friend from their. They always call it the root you take, so it makes sense that if the device is determining the "root" the packets should take, then it's a rooter. Haha. It does sound very funny to me. If you have kids that watch Thomas the train, they call sir topem hat "the fat controller". Thank you, Brett A Mansfield On Nov 23, 2015, at 2:34 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: im watching a video on mpls by some British fellow, he pronounces router as rooter, is this the case on the other side of the pond? Is there a true pronunciation or is it just a matter of regional dialect? -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.