News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Comedy Sensation. Parent comment

Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by iopq on Friday July 01, 2016 @11:08PM (#12021202)
The usual distinction is "to route" rhymes with "to doubt" and the word "route" is pronounced like "root". Some people also use the verb pronunciation for the noun as well.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by thaumasiotes on Friday July 01, 2016 @11:10PM (#12021205)
That distinction exists only in your own mind, and likely not even there.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/route

Contrast http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/legiti... , which correctly notes that the adjective and verb are pronounced differently.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by ams6110 on Saturday July 02, 2016 @01:26AM (#12021493)
I most often hear:

Route 66 -> sounds like root

My usual route to work -> rhymes with doubt

Can someone reset the router -> rhymes with doubter.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by icambron on Saturday July 02, 2016 @05:02AM (#12021905)
Turns out, we're really inconsistent! http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_26....
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by iopq on Saturday July 02, 2016 @07:27AM (#12022148)
Router as in the hardware always rhymes with doubter. I have never heard any other pronunciation for it. Route as a verb in IT always rhymes with doubt.

In other meanings the pronunciations vary.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by Jedd on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @07:21AM (#12078137) 

  > Router as in the hardware always rhymes with doubter.
  > I have never heard any other pronunciation for it.
Neither had I, until I lived in the UK.

I'm Australian, and we use the owl sounding router.

In the UK, it's very much a rooter sounding router.

Always funny, as here in AU root is slang for the act of copulation.

The pronunciation made Akamai's SureRoute product especially droll.

[ Parent | on HN ]