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

Casey Liss

@vmachiel No, but I reckon we have both German and French beat.

Andrew Wade

@caseyliss wait so if you say Virginia Tech won convincingly (hypothetically of course) would you say they “rooted” the opposition or they “rowted” them?
Genuinely asking, zero snark.

Dan Katri

@caseyliss there are some that do pronounce the L - from my experience a lot of South Asian background people do (half my family). But fair point.

Mr Fry

@caseyliss When something seems awry with a word, check out its etymology. Router comes from the french word "route", which is a way, or a path, like Route 66. O and U together in French are pronounced "oo", hence the pronunciation.
Very interestingly, the woodworking implement which bears the same name comes from middle English "wroten", related to "root", and we do pronounce this one: "rowter".

Andrew Wade

@caseyliss (cos if you say they “rooted” them, then our Australian friends might have an opinion )

Casey Liss

@andrewwade rowted. But that’s not common vernacular over here.

Craig Reynolds

@caseyliss It’s both a little funnier and a little more confusing as an Australian. We share much in common for pronunciation with the UK, unsurprising. But we have, historically at least, also used “root” as an alternate, more ok to say in public, equivalent to “fuck”. i.e. “get rooted”, “it’s rooted”, etc. (1/2)

Craig Reynolds

So despite the fact many say rooter, there’s a mix of pronunciations, and personally I go with the US version when talking about network stuff just to avoid the sound of thethe word and the potential connotations here (2/2)

Joel Drapper 🇬🇧🇺🇦

@caseyliss we can differentiate between a network router and a woodworking router.

The Animal and the Machine

@caseyliss
Good sir, I think you’ll find how we spell things is of no consequence! Don’t apply logic here!

This thing provides a route (pronounced root) for data and so it must be a “rooter”. Direction, like roots of a tree.

I think you’ve made the unfortunate mistake of pronouncing the ‘u’ we put in there for no reason.

Don’t worry old bean. Just start saying “root” and we’ll soon get back to normality!

Paul Hudson

@caseyliss I’m at peace with the US pronunciation of route, but I will still wince when someone there says “en route”.

The Animal and the Machine

@mrfry @caseyliss
See! Us Brits always said it was the fault of the French , whatever it was.

(I love all you guys )

Mr Fry

@taatm @caseyliss I am actually French but I've live in the UK for almost 10 years (made it in just before Brexit).

Christina Jennifer

@caseyliss You absolutely do butcher the word router.

A router makes routes. A router (US pronunciation) is used for edging woodwork.

The o in hover is a short o, like the first o in borrow. You say it like a u, as if it were spelt “huvver”.

Machiel

@caseyliss well.. where do you think English came from

Marc Robinson :mastodon:

@caseyliss I was also cracking wise, but it doesn’t always translate. My bad. ‍️

ZS

@caseyliss How do you *not* get it the correct way?

The Animal and the Machine

@mrfry @caseyliss
Sorry about that. Wasn’t what I voted for.

joshhunt

@caseyliss wait, what other ways are there to pronounce 'hover'?

- An Australian, listening to all of American media, living in the UK

Peter van Broekhoven

@caseyliss Same way people get “ruff” from “roof”, I guess?