"Lose," and "loose."

[Perd Hapley]

Maybe "route" is a regional difference.  In any case, I've heard it pronounced one way, just as much as the other.  I use both, myself, without really thinking about it. 

Hawkmoon, how do you pronounce "route," when used as a verb?  How about "router"? 


When I was in the army, we used the phrase "in rowt" (phonetic spelling), to mean that we were on the way.  I always imagined that it was spelled "en route," and it seemed like it must be French.  So I sometimes pronounced it "on root."  I don't speak French, but that was my best guess, and it just came out that way.  Folks found this amusing. 

[CNYCacher]

"Sabot"

:):):)

Route 81 = "ROOWT 81"
Router = "ROWTER"

[Standing Wolf]

"Sabot"

You leave my cat out of this.

[Tallpine]

how do you pronounce "route," when used as a verb?  How about "router"? 

You mean like...

The pig routs in the ground.

I need to get the roto-router man to fix my drain.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

I don't know if anybody mentioned this one. How about old-timers instead of Alzheimers?

My father died with that, so maybe I'm testier than most, but that makes me want to slap them silly.

[crt360]

I don't know if anybody mentioned this one. How about old-timers instead of Alzheimers?

I hear that.  I even talked to someone recently who called it all-timers disease. 

[tyme]

Oh, let's not forget the girl I liked once who said to me, "Would you like some pasketti?" suddenly I was wondering exactly what it was I saw in her. OK, she had a real nice butt, but even that couldn't bring me around after sharing pasketti with her. 

Maybe she knew the right word but adopted that mispronunciation by choice?

For instance, someone saying "nucular" these days is not necessarily uneducated or ignorant of the proper pronunciation.

I hope you have asked her where the biscotti was, since that's closer fowneticklee.

[Perd Hapley]

How about "chip-polt-ay" peppers? 

[Hawkmoon]

Hawkmoon, how do you pronounce "route," when used as a verb?  How about "router"? 

Route, the verb, is pronounced "rewt," just like the noun.

Router, the computer term, is universally pronounced "raow' ter" because it exists only as a geek term, and everyone knows geeks don't speak English, they only speak Geekish.

[French G.]

You're telling me. I married a Pennsylvania/Dutch girl 35 years ago. It's been a lifetime of telling her that a window seal keeps cold air out; it's not something you keep flowers on. And she played with dolls when she was a kid, not dawls. I don't like Pepsi, what other kind of pawp do yuns have? She swears she was taught that way as a child and we talk funny. I keep telling her I remember the phonics lessons I had and she would have failed miserably. And we won't even get into read (short for ready) instead of cleaned. Always makes for spirited conversation. And then when we go up to the Upper Peninsula, she really has fun listening to the Yoopers. Loud = louood.

This brings up the word and proper use of youse. As in: "Youse guys over there." Or: "How's youse doing today?" And y'all thought us hicks were weird for saying y'all.

Then I go see Minnesotans and root and roof usually come up.

[Perd Hapley]

Route, the verb, is pronounced "rewt," just like the noun.

Interesting.  Again, both pronunciations are very common.  That one is a homophone of another word doesn't make it incorrect, obviously. 

But then, I'm like you.  I regard my own ear as the final arbiter of correct pronunciation.  I don't care who says otherwise, "err" is pronounced like "air."  "Urr" just sounds dumb.  And "loo-poled" sounds dumb, too.  That there scope is a lee-uh-poled, and that's that.   

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

I don't care who says otherwise, "err" is pronounced like "air."  "Urr" just sounds dumb.

You made an urror in that sentence.

[Perd Hapley]

Are you trying to start a row? 

[Monkeyleg]

No, but I have to make a roux for my jumbalya.

[280plus]

Maybe she knew the right word but adopted that mispronunciation by choice?

Nope, not in this case unfortunately. 

[Tallpine]

I don't care who says otherwise, "err" is pronounced like "air."  "Urr" just sounds dumb.

I had a CS professor from Lucy Anna who pronounced it "era" - as in, "you got an era in your program."

[makattak]

I had a CS professor from Lucy Anna who pronounced it "era" - as in, "you got an era in your program."

No no, he was pronouncing error, not err.

Error is the noun, err is the verb. You can't have an "err" in your program.

[Tallpine]

No no, he was pronouncing error, not err.

Error is the noun, err is the verb. You can't have an "err" in your program.

Okay, he pronounced it "air-uh"

Sorry two urr inn sutch a manor   

[makattak]

Okay, he pronounced it "air-uh"

Sorry two urr inn sutch a manor   

I believe that's "Man-uh"

[280plus]

Erl,,,in Texas it's not oil it's erl.

[Tallpine]

Erl,,,in Texas it's not oil it's erl.

At least we don't put it in the "cah" :(

I think all the R's migrated from New England to Texas.

I still "worsh" my car. 

[Hawkmoon]

I think all the R's migrated from New England to Texas.

Not all, only the terminal 'R's. Downeast in Maine, for example, someone who sticks you up with a gun is a "robbah" (or perhaps "rawbah," depending on where you are in Maine), not a "ahbbah."

[Lee]

Quality thread.
Is that good or bad?

[Tallpine]

Not all, only the terminal 'R's. Downeast in Maine, for example, someone who sticks you up with a gun is a "robbah" (or perhaps "rawbah," depending on where you are in Maine), not a "ahbbah."

Still enough of them moved that native born Texicans have to use them up wherever we can. 


Another thing is when I finally went to college and said INsurance, everyone looked at me like I through a rock threw a window. 

I think it's a Scots[Irish] thing .... 

[Stevie-Ray]

And "loo-poled" sounds dumb, too.  That there scope is a lee-uh-poled, and that's that.

You have aired.