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Fixtheleek?

Posted 07/03/2008 20:03:55

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Sorry Jason I am afraid I must hold my hand up to making the ‘hideous sound when coming from the lips of a non-American’ Tongue

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

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Jason

Posted 07/03/2008 20:32:12

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Well, so long as you mend your ways, I won't come after you. Wink

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Spedley

Posted 07/03/2008 20:49:42

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I 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'.

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Jason

Posted 07/03/2008 21:05:59

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There 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.

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Spedley

Posted 07/03/2008 21:27:25

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I thought the grooves in wood were like paths, ie.e routes.

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Posted 07/03/2008 21:48:01

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Well, 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.