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Nice :) So, router seems to be pronounced with "UK" selected as "rooter", with "US" selected as "rauter".

• Symbiote 5y ago
  In Britain, route rhyming with boot means the path travelled. Rout rhyming with sprout means cutting a slot in wood etc. The same difference holds for router and router.
  • PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
    The rule is not hard and fast, however. Some BrE speakers will use "root" for "path travelled", and I've heard both BrE and AmE speakers describe their spinning bladed power tool as a "rooter".
    • Symbiote 5y ago
      Maybe writing "router and router" wasn't very clear. Those are "rout-er" and "route-r". As far as I know (and I'm British), for path travelled or a device directing those paths, all BrE speakers rhyme route and router with hoot and hooter. The power tool, the older manual tool, and the slots they cut, are more obscure. Rout and router should rhyme with shout and shouter in BrE, but I would expect mistakes or guesses for this router. With shoot/shout, boot/bout, loot/lout, scoot/scout, snoot/snout, toot/tout, in BrE a path travelled should be a root. But there's also brute/flute/jute/lute etc, which could be better written broot/floot/joot/loot, leaving the -ute for words like mute, tribute, minute (small), repute. But I won't try and fix English in a HN comment.
  • zepearl 5y ago
    That's nice to remember - thank you :)