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Toerag
Trad climber
Guernsey, British Channel Islands
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 27, 2015 - 01:10am PT
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So, British people pronounce router (as in the computer networking device) as 'rooter', Americans pronounce it as 'rawter'. So, the question is, how do Americans pronounce the router which is used in woodworking, because British people pronounce it the same way as Americans pronounce the networking device. Do Americans pronounce both devices the same way?
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Feb 27, 2015 - 02:05am PT
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Yep. Same. Not rooter. But climbs can be rowts or roots.
Rooter.
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Toerag
Trad climber
Guernsey, British Channel Islands
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 27, 2015 - 02:15am PT
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Cool thanks, our office discussion can be resolved :-)
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Feb 27, 2015 - 05:49am PT
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^^^. Tad, that bit on the spinney thingie leaves a nice finish.
It looks almost polished.
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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Feb 27, 2015 - 08:39am PT
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Strange Dave, But I've never met anyone British, who calls it anything other than a 'rooter' phon...
Steve
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 27, 2015 - 08:39am PT
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I love that bit in Joe Brown's The Hard Years where Robin Smith tells
Bloodymear "Up yer hooter, mate!" A classic of the literature for sure.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 27, 2015 - 08:48am PT
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But, Dave, when a Chinese person pronounces rooter it's like straight outta Compton!
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Feb 27, 2015 - 08:51am PT
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I've worked with Brits who say router like rooter when referring to a layer 3 packet forwarding device:
There's a blast from the past for old networking geeks!
C C I E # 3 9 8 5
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beaner
Social climber
Maine
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Feb 27, 2015 - 08:53am PT
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woodworking tool and network device:
route(rhymes in out) er
not
root er (although I have a co-worker that calls the networking device a root-er, and we are tech people - software engineers)
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Feb 27, 2015 - 12:47pm PT
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Lazy Cali tongue reporting in: call 'em both "rowder", rhymes with "powder", not "row" (as in a boat).
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Larry
Trad climber
Bisbee
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Feb 27, 2015 - 01:23pm PT
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I've never heard anyone, American or otherwise, say "rawter" (rhymes with daughter).
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 27, 2015 - 01:44pm PT
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Larry, I guess you haven't been to Bawston.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 28, 2015 - 09:16am PT
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Is there a parrot in this room? ;-)
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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Feb 28, 2015 - 10:42am PT
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oh shoot. Didn't see that when I posted....
Squawk squawk
Susan
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 28, 2015 - 01:10pm PT
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This was a rout .. er .. maybe even a slooter.
The Cleveland Cavaliers make history, defeating the Miami Heat, December 17, 1991; final score 148-80
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 28, 2015 - 01:22pm PT
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What do you call the top surface of a house? I generally pronounce it the other way than roooof. Same for those horizontal climbs.
I always say rOUTer.
I use rOUTe & root interchangeably for the way up a climb.
I don't think you can get your kicks on rOUTe 66!
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