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What's Australian for the most privileged account on a computer? Is there a verb for when you get access to it?
by JTBooth 4y ago
What's Australian for the most privileged account on a computer? Is there a verb for when you get access to it?
- alvah 4y agoIt’s the same verb but it raises a smile every single time. Yes I am a child in an adult’s body. Slightly OT, they pronounce router “rowter” over here, presumably to avoid the same issue.
- aussieshibe 4y agoInterestingly this seems to be one of those unusual cases where the US by and large uses the British pronunciation while Australia does its own thing. On the plus side for Australia, we never have to hear the classic form: > Rooter? I hardly even know 'er!
- causi 4y agoDepends on the region. I'm from the US and I've never heard somebody say "rooter"
- lotsofpulp 4y agoMe either. All over the US, I have only ever heard “row-ter”. And my British family says “roo-ter”.
- alvah 4y agoIs it Root 66 or Rowt 66 though? Because a rooter is related to roots.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI have heard root and rowt when referring to roads in the US, but I have always used rout, and I think I have heard it more commonly used than root.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoA router pronounced 'rowter' is surely a wood working tool.