Moose? Mouse? Muss?

[gnomi]

[Poll #965842]

*Note: I know that the Route 128 in MA goes N-S. It's a random example. :-)

Comments

[saxikath]

If I'm routing something to someone at work, that rhymes with "doubting." If I'm asking you "what route do you take to work?" it's somewhat ill-defined -- sometimes rhyming with "doubt" and sometimes with "toot."

[tober.livejournal.com]

For "route" as in "numbered road" I usually rhyme with "toot", however occasionally with "pout." However, when "route" is a verb or a noun describing something other than a road, I always rhyme with "pout" - and the device that conveys packets from one network to another definitely always rhymes with "doubter" - and I don't think I know anybody in the networking industry who rhymes it with "scooter." I think that perhaps somewhere in my subconscious the "route" meaning "road" and the "route" for every other use of that word are different (etymologically related) words (that are spelled the same way).

[arfur]

ditto. except that with routing equipment, for me it was a conscious retraining when I realized I must sound like a fool to all them experts who pronounced it like "doubter."

[twitch124.livejournal.com]

The woodworking tool rhymes with doubter too, right?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

As far as I have always heard it, yes.

[twitch124.livejournal.com]

cool, thanks.

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

i realised i use "rowt" and "root" interchangably when describing roads with numbers (though it is always "root sixty-six" thanks to the song, thankyouverymuch) but i use "rowt" for every other application as described above.

[nchanter.livejournal.com]

I would argue that the Washington DC area and Maryland Should be counted as the US Mid Atlantic, and not the US South Atlantic, which I why I said I learned to speak English in the US Mid Atlantic. People near Washington DC speak very very differently from those who live in, oh, lets say, the Carolinas, and much more like people from Pennsilvania, in my experiences. Same with Delaware, which is really still Pennsilvania, even though it hasn't been for hundereds of years. Delaware isn't cool enough to be it's own state.

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

I switched to saying "root" 128 and such when I moved to Massachusetts, but I had a paper "rout" when I was in high school. I'll sometimes waver between the two when talking with folks still on the Gulf Coast. I picked "something else" for that reason. I think it's the case that I only use the word for roadways (in which case I go with the version in use by my conversation companions) or for newspaper delivery rounds; I generally use other terms for the word's other meanings.

I've never heard anyone say "rooter" for the networking device or for the woodworking tool. Now my brain is trying to make up a rap lyric -- something about using a router like David Souter. ... I don't know.

"Put"?!

[arfur]

**Renote: It's actually much more accurate to describe Route 128 as going E-W for most of its length, so you're forgiven. :-)

[madfilkentist]

128 South and 93 North are the same road for several miles, so who says it has to make sense?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

There's a section of road by my parents' house (in Burlington, MA) where you're simultaneously on 128 South and 3 North. It's most amusing.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

I would just like to state, for the record, that I hate macraroon. Despise their little coconutty existance. *hands her portion to someone else*

[farwing.livejournal.com]

macaroons. they obviously hate me back, as i can't even type their cursed name correctly. bah.

[magid.livejournal.com]

True macaroons are made of almond paste, and are quite yummy, though pricey. Coconut macaroons are poor substitutes.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Well, I hate almond paste even more than coconut (almonds are yummy, so is coconut milk), so you can have all of my portion of true macaroons too.

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

Sister!

(I have always hated those Passover macaroons. Always.)

[zsero.livejournal.com]

I agree.

[cellio]

I've been told that western PA is closer to OH than NY/NJ, linguistically speaking. I don't know if that's actually true. (I said PA/NY/NJ.)

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

when i was growing up in kentucky, our address was 'rural [roubt] 3,' but i don't honestly know which way i first heard it pronounced in such cases as 'take a different route.' 'root' seems natural for most cases, but i sometimes find myself saying roubt. in fact last week i referred to a bus roubt that went down root 9, in one sentence.

[abbasegal.livejournal.com]

Though in the shuk you'll hear "arba shekel kilo," I have been corrected by bus drivers to "arba'a shekalim." (ארבעה שקלים)

To your poll, though for the computer, "router" certainly rhymes with "doubter," if pressed, I might call the person at AAA who draws the line on the maps a "router" to rhyme with "tooter." Granted, most people wouldn't use the word "router" to describe this person at all, but it makes sense to me. ;-)