In the US, I've heard only ROW-ter (or ROUT-er if you prefer) for both kinds. But you can hear both pronunciations, "ROOT" and "ROUT", for "route" as in a county road. I think "root" was more usual when I grew up in Minnesota, but "rowt" is more what I hear here in NC.
...Which is ironic, sort of, because certain words such as "root", "hoof" and "roof" were pronounced to rhyme with "book" and "cook" in the Midwest and all three rhyme with "boot" in the east. I had a classmate in high school, when I moved to Pennsylvania, whose name was Scott Root, and when I pronounced it like "put" he thought I was making fun of his name. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? -Penny Hines */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Jeremy Nicoll Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 21:49 In the UK, usual usage is "rooter" for the network device, but "row-ter" for the woodworking tool. --- On Sat, 18 Mar 2023, at 01:38, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > I recently tried to understand what the correct pronounciation of the > word "router" is, because here in Germany there are different > opinions. And I learned in the end, that BOTH ways are correct, like > "rooter" and (don't know how to spell the other, > maybe) "row-ter". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
