Mastodawn

You 🇬🇧 folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.

Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽

@caseyliss I’m at peace with the US pronunciation of route, but I will still wince when someone there says “en route”.

@twostraws I would pronounce that as “en rowt”. Is that what makes you wince?

@caseyliss @twostraws it should because it’s a mixture of French (en) and English (rowt). In/on rowt would be a bit more consistent than using en.

@caseyliss Yep! I’m surprised it hasn’t morphed into “on route” both in terms of spelling and pronunciation.

@twostraws @caseyliss For some it has. I've heard it pronounced every combination of en/on + route/root in the US

@caseyliss it’s actually all French ‘en route’, and ‘route’ in French is pronounced ‘root’. It means ‘on the way’ in French.