I don't. If I ever have to say that word I just make a high-pitched screeching noise to avoid embarrassment.
I don't. If I ever have to say that word I just make a high-pitched screeching noise to avoid embarrassment.
As a Swede, I've always been taught that it's pronounced "Rowt".
Both pronunciations seem to be correct and are not bound to a meaning: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...oute_1?q=route
A verb that means (from your 'scroll down' on wiktionary) "1.To direct or divert along a particular 'course!'" As i said in my first post... Either is considered correct by Dictionaries for 'route'... And i already said how I pronouce the 3 different words...
Last edited by openair; 2012-01-12 at 06:53 PM.
I would go with Route being pronounced Root and Rout being pronounced Rowt.
South east US- Rowt. I never hear it called root except on tv. Root is the thing you trip on if you walk too close to the cherry tree.
A computer sometimes uses a "router".
Whilst driving you come upon a detour. You punch it into your GPS and it says "re-routing"
As mentioned earlier in this thread, that WR has excellent "route" running skills.
Don't say "root", IMO is makes people sound dim witted.
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"rowt" is "rout" as in "the retreat became a rout"
"root" is route as in "I take Route 495 from Boston to Chicopee once a month"
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I use both depending what I am trying to convey.
"If you want to control people, if you want to feed them a pack of lies and dominate them, keep them ignorant. For me, literacy means freedom." - LaVar Burton.
I'm from Ireland and pronounce it as root. Everyone that I know here in NC pronounces it rowt.
This concept of wuv confuses and infuriates us.
Both. The historic East-West highway in the U.S. is Route 66 and is always pronounced Root 66. (There's a song, no less.) However, if I were to ask someone "What route do you take when you talk to school" I would pronounce it rowt, just like an internet router would always be pronounced as rowter.
route/ro͞ot/----Dictionary definition right there. Its "root".
French Canadian from New-Brunswick, I say it "Root", but mainly because the french word also sounds like "Root"