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

[Paul Sladen]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Devin L. Ganger wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:51:43PM -0500, Dan Debertin wrote:
>  
> > There's nothing quite like the way the .au Cisco folk say "router". My
> > best text approximation would be "reawdah". Not to mention "sweetch".
> 
> They say "router" (and, for that matter, "route" and "routing") as they
> would say "rooter" ("root" and "rooting").

And so should everyone... well actually everyone /did/;  only along
Hollywood, and Star Trek... and now the Southern Mid West half of the
states has been (falsely) pursuaded to produce `router' as `ra-out-er'.

Come-on -- How many people would produce `linen' - `line en'...  just
doesn't work does it!

   www.foldoc.org/pub/linux-pronunciation

For those wanting to mend their ways (and to pronouce `linux' properly too).
Paul (of .uk)

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