How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Comedy Sensation

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.

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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.

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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....

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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.

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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.

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