InstantForum.NET v4.1.4Micro Mart Forumhttp://forum.micromart.co.uk/forums@micromart.co.ukWed, 03 Dec 2008 05:57:39 GMT20http://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic270786-61-1.aspxOh no, we're not going down this route again are we?</P><P>If you root about the Forum, we thrashed this out in a thread last week.Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:50:05 GMTBJMhttp://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic270786-61-1.aspxNaturally you can, yes.Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:47:29 GMTJasonhttp://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic270786-61-1.aspx... and I take it you can't add 'er' to the end of a verb to make it 'something which does' like rout-er.Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:38:46 GMTSpedleyhttp://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic270786-61-1.aspxWell, maybe they are, but the verb is "to rout" (no "e"), so it's an entirely different word. "To rout" also has several other definitions, but "to route" is not one of them. Of course, many US Americans pronounce "route" as "rowt" (as is their right), which is no doubt why the confusion arises.Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:48:01 GMTJasonhttp://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic270786-61-1.aspxI thought the grooves in wood were like paths, ie.e routes.Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:27:25 GMTSpedleyhttp://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic270786-61-1.aspxThere is of course a verb "to rout", and so the tool that does it is a "router" (pronounced "rowter"), but it has no connection with the verb "to route", from which we get our networking equipment. A broadband router doesn't cut grooves into wood.Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:05:59 GMTJasonhttp://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic270786-61-1.aspxI also admit that during most of my life that 'route' was pronounced 'root' but a tool for cutting grooves in wood was a 'router', pronounced not like 'root' but like 'ouch'.Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:49:42 GMTSpedleyhttp://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic270786-61-1.aspxWell, so long as you mend your ways, I won't come after you. ;)Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:32:12 GMTJasonhttp://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic270786-61-1.aspxSorry Jason I am afraid I must hold my hand up to making the ‘hideous sound when coming from the lips of a non-American’:P<br>Being a carpenter for nearly 40years before I happened upon a broadband inspired ‘router’[that rhymes with hooter as in rooter] the only one I knew before that was a wood cutting ‘router’ [rowter] chisel, plane and electric. Perhaps a better choice of spelling would have helped us slightly dyslexic thickies:doze: to manage this modern vocabulary.:hehe:<br><br>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:03:55 GMTFixtheleek?