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

Alex Magill

@caseyliss rarely these days. But I do think of it every time I hear you all pronounce router (networking) on ATP

Franklin Delano Stallone

@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.

Simon 🌻

@caseyliss

Myke Hurley

@caseyliss be quiet

Fabien

@caseyliss from “route”

Ste Grainer

@caseyliss https://youtu.be/uRX_NZ7kTt0

Paul Hudson

@caseyliss Yep! I’m surprised it hasn’t morphed into “on route” both in terms of spelling and pronunciation.

hooliews

@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.

Ezat

@caseyliss it’s actually all French ‘en route’, and ‘route’ in French is pronounced ‘root’. It means ‘on the way’ in French.

Michael Fessler

@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”.

Dr. Drang

@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next you’ll be putting an “s” on the end of “math.”

Cris :verified_coffee:

@twostraws @caseyliss For some it has. I've heard it pronounced every combination of en/on + route/root in the US

ashpole

@caseyliss What do you call that thing sold by Sears?

Paul

@caseyliss A router (root) is a networking device. A router (rout) is a woodworking power tool.

Wade

@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.”

Casey Liss

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Casey Liss

@ashpole I’m not into woodworking, so I don’t.

Casey Liss

@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.

Andrew Laurence

@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.

James Thomson

@drdrang @caseyliss Casey was telling me only this week that he was broadly in favour of metric units.