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 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". -
@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.@caseyliss (cos if you say they “rooted” them, then our Australian friends might have an opinion
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@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.@andrewwade rowted. But that’s not common vernacular over here.
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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 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)
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@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)
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
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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 we can differentiate between a network router and a woodworking 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
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!
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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 I’m at peace with the US pronunciation of route, but I will still wince when someone there says “en route”.
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@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".@mrfry @caseyliss
See! Us Brits always said it was the fault of the French 
, whatever it was.(I love all you guys
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@mrfry @caseyliss
See! Us Brits always said it was the fault of the French , whatever it was.(I love all you guys
)@taatm @caseyliss
I am actually French but I've live in the UK for almost 10 years (made it in just before Brexit). -
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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 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”.
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@vmachiel No, but I reckon we have both German and French beat.
@caseyliss well.. where do you think English came from
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@marcintosh I was cracking wise. But, uh, thanks?
@caseyliss I was also cracking wise, but it doesn’t always translate. My bad.
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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 How do you *not* get it the correct way?
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@taatm @caseyliss
I am actually French but I've live in the UK for almost 10 years (made it in just before Brexit).@mrfry @caseyliss
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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 wait, what other ways are there to pronounce 'hover'?
- An Australian, listening to all of American media, living in the UK
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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 Same way people get “ruff” from “roof”, I guess?
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@caseyliss - ...singing about Route 66?
@caseyliss - so my English is American through and through, having spent school and higher ed years there. But this was before and up to dial-up modem times.
Noone had a router except to make long notches in wood.IT routers entered my vocabulary via Europe/UK...
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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 it’s easy. We pronounce (networking) router that way so that we don’t mix it up with woodworking router which we pronounce the other way
