[geeks] Re: [rescue] Re: [SunRescue] Catalyst 2100 switch

Brian Hechinger geeks at sunhelp.org
Fri Jun 8 09:12:41 CDT 2001


looking at the subject, this message has had a long and glorious history being
bounced from one list to another. :)

> It's not necessarily American...  I pronounce it "router" like
> woodworking now, so that I don't get laughed out of the network
> meetings, but all of the New England area of pronounces "route", as in a 
> road, as root.  I expect that if I ever make it back that way, I'll pick
> up the accent in no time...

i live in eastern PA.  the mail man does not walk a "root" he walks a "route"
(pronounced like the woodworking device)  around here we do not pronounce the
word route as root.

funny this langauge thing.  :)

-brian



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