You 🇬🇧 folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
@caseyliss Not to drag the tone down but twat is maybe one of the more puzzling differences. Despite growing up in the US, I’ve completely dropped the US pronunciation which does seem odd upon reflection.
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
@caseyliss be quiet
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
@caseyliss from
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
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@twostraws I would pronounce that as “en rowt”. Is that what makes you wince?
@caseyliss Yep! I’m surprised it hasn’t morphed into “on route” both in terms of spelling and pronunciation.
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
@caseyliss as someone who’s not a native English speaker I’d have a hard time differentiating between root and route if both had that similarity in pronunciation in both US and UK English.
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@twostraws I would pronounce that as “en rowt”. Is that what makes you wince?
@caseyliss it’s actually all French ‘en route’, and ‘route’ in French is pronounced ‘root’. It means ‘on the way’ in French.
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@dkatri Does the
say “saLmon” or “sammon”?@caseyliss @dkatri In Israel, it’s “sal-mon”. Then again, there’s a street in Jerusalem named after the 16th president, which folks pronounce “link-oh-lin”.
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next you’ll be putting an “s” on the end of “math.”
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@caseyliss Yep! I’m surprised it hasn’t morphed into “on route” both in terms of spelling and pronunciation.
@twostraws @caseyliss For some it has. I've heard it pronounced every combination of en/on + route/root in the US
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
@caseyliss What do you call that thing sold by Sears?
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
@caseyliss A router (root) is a networking device. A router (rout) is a woodworking power tool.
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
@caseyliss A Brit planned a route to be routed just right,
While a Yank routed his router all night.
“That’s not how you root!”
Laughed an Aussie en route—
“Your route’s fine, mate, but your root needs more bite.” -
@caseyliss A Brit planned a route to be routed just right,
While a Yank routed his router all night.
“That’s not how you root!”
Laughed an Aussie en route—
“Your route’s fine, mate, but your root needs more bite.” -
@caseyliss What do you call that thing sold by Sears?
@ashpole I’m not into woodworking, so I don’t.
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@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next you’ll be putting an “s” on the end of “math.”
@drdrang That’s the programmer in me — the comma is not part of “hover” but part of the enclosing sentence. It’s a scope issue.
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@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next you’ll be putting an “s” on the end of “math.”
@drdrang @caseyliss I, for one, never liked the method I was taught for handling punctuation and quotes. In learning that I was taught the American convention, and that the British convention looked “right” to me, I immediately switched.
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@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next you’ll be putting an “s” on the end of “math.”
@drdrang @caseyliss Casey was telling me only this week that he was broadly in favour of metric units.
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@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next you’ll be putting an “s” on the end of “math.”
@drdrang @caseyliss this is one of those cases I know is “wrong”, but doesn’t make sense to me, so I refuse to participate.
