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

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

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

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

@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.”

@wadiest

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

@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.

@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.

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

@drdrang @caseyliss this is one of those cases I know is “wrong”, but doesn’t make sense to me, so I refuse to participate.

@caseyliss The American pronunciation in my work that really bothers me: Tinnitus (Should be tin-ih-tus not tin-ay-tus or /ˈtɪnɪtəs/ if you want the IPA).

@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”