You 🇬🇧 folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.

@Tirial I want to pronounce it tin-eye-tus, but yeah, apparently tinuh-tus is the norm?

@caseyliss At this point, both are in use, but the short “I” is correct. The root (see what I did there) word is from latin, so it maintains the latin stress, hence tin-ih-tus. In a bit of fun, the first written use of the word we have is from Pliny The Elder. Also… don’t do any of the things he suggests to cure it.

@caseyliss Dude, now try growing up in one country, moving to another for 13 years, and then to another for 13 years and counting. Throw in moving between TX & DE for good measure. All English speaking countries. All with different words (meanings) for the same things and very different pronunciations.

My accent and vocabulary doesn't know its ass/arse from its elbow.

@caseyliss I suspect everyone who’s programmed thinks that way. For me, it’s a challenge to follow the American convention, which is why I do it.

@jamesthomson @caseyliss That’s the saddest thing I’ve ever heard.

@drdrang @caseyliss I think it means we're finally getting through to him.

@drdrang @caseyliss so mathematics get shortened to maths. And statistics gets shortened to stats. Logical to me.

@jamesthomson Imperial units are moronic. Except Fahrenheit which is unimpeachably the better unit for ambient air temps.

@jamesthomson @drdrang @caseyliss Everyone knows that the metric system is objectively better. It’s just that people don’t like change. “The metric system is the tool of the devil. My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I likes it”

@jamesthomson cc @drdrang who I meant to copy

@caseyliss @jamesthomson https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk

@caseyliss @jamesthomson 30 is hot
20 is nice
10 is cold
0 is ice