Re: pronouncing router

Christian Barmala wrote:

Nog wrote:
Christian Barmala wrote:
How do you pronounce the "ou" "router"? like in "bounce"
Same way as the tool that cuts wood. r out er

Found the machine and the pronounciation.

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=router


I pronounced the network device the same way, but I often heared "r oo
ter"

That is how I pronounce it and I shall continue to do so. The following is
lifted from http://www.foldoc.org/pub/linux-pronunciation

A worse example is the common mispronunciation of the word "router" as
"raowter." The word comes from the French phase "en route,"
pronounced "on root." Until the mid-1980s, the standard American and
English pronunciation of this word was "root," as evidenced by the
pronunciation of the popular US television show "Route 66." When
Local Area Networks became common technology, introduced by companies
populated with engineers from the American South and West, the origin
of the word and its correct pronunciation were displaced by the
Southwestern regional pronunciation, which has now infested even
television shows such as Star Trek Voyager ("Re-raowt power to the
shields!"). To adopt this pronunciation is to deliberately bury the
history of the phrase. (Clearly the show's producers do not realize
how bizarre this pronunciation sounds outside the American Southwest.)

It is understandable that many individuals with a strong engineering
and computer background are weak in English, just as many with a
background in languages are weak in mathematics. One can sympathize
with their plight since standard English pronunciation is infrequently
or poorly taught these days. But it is impossible to sympathize with
the authors of many key documents in our industry such as the
foundation documents of the Internet, the Requests for Comments
(RFCs). From the beginning, these documents are full of spelling and
grammatical errors, yet each came from academic or commercial
organizations large and sufficiently prosperous to afford editing and
proofreading services. Had they understood the errors of their
linguistic ways, these scientists would surely have behaved
differently.

--
Les
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