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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days ago

Put another nut on the barbie

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Put another nut on the barbie

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days ago
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  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    I live in the US. For me a computer router is pronounced with an “ow” sound. Like if a Brit were “having a row” with someone, but with -ter at the end. However, highway “routes” can be pronounced with that same vowel, or as “root” like a plant root.

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      21 days ago

      Where do you stand on the woodworking tool, a direction and a complete loss in a sport/battle?

      e.g. in UK
      Router
      Woodworking: outer is pronounced outer
      Computer: outer is pronounced ooter

      Route
      Direction: oute is pronounced oot

      Rout
      Complete loss in sport/battle: out is pronounced out

      Are these all “owt” in the US?

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        The only one of those that is possibly “oot” is route as in directions, in standard American English

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          21 days ago

          Agreed

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        20 days ago

        In the US, all are “out” but route can be out or oot depending on your mood

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        Are these all “owt” in the US?

        Yes. But I have heard people pronounce route as “root” before.

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        It’s even worse. In the US Route is pronounced differently depending on part of speech.

        We r-out our traffic to r-oot 66

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          They are two different words, the verb is just pronounced differently from the noun.

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      21 days ago

      “root”

      It’s a French word, and they don’t say “rowt”

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        21 days ago

        Root in french is racine, but we do say routeur designing the electronic box.

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        Weird, when I say it, it’s an American word.

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          21 days ago

          Yeah, but yanks think they invented everything

          Admittedly, school shootings started with you lot, so there’s that.

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            21 days ago

            You sound angry

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            Most reserved Eurobro response. “This is how I pronounce a word” WElL aT LEaSt oUR SKeWlS aren’t SHEWTIN’ GAlLERiEs!

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              20 days ago

              Fuck off, yank

              Wrong side of the world

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                20 days ago

                Let me know where, so I can steer clear.

                • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
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                  20 days ago

                  Pffffft!

                  Like you even have a passport…

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                    I do actually. Your insults are a bit dated, have you got high-speed internet in whatever village you’re from?

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          From my point of view the firewalls are evil.

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        Languages evolve. News at 9

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          especially in places that have no “language” then people with many languages come together and adopt one.

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            Every place has language, tho 🤔

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