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| Thread ID: 140702 | 2015-11-29 04:01:00 | Girl from BBC shows you how to increase the output from your router (funny) | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1412109 | 2015-11-29 04:01:00 | Se handy hints here www.bbc.com a short video But someone needs to tell her how to pronounce Router. She could come and upgrade my system any day. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1412110 | 2015-11-29 04:40:00 | But someone needs to tell her how to pronounce Router. Always smirk at the way the yanks pronounce router ( rooter) LOL. BUT maybe the same person can link the actual link to the Video, that ones about Li-Fi :D :p |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1412111 | 2015-11-29 06:21:00 | Always smirk at the way the yanks pronounce router ( rooter) LOL. BUT maybe the same person can link the actual link to the Video, that ones about Li-Fi :D :p I've never heard a yank ever call a router a rooter, only the poms. I remember back in the later 1990s a pom from UK Nortel came across to tell us all about Nortel Networks latest and greatest and wonder why the smirks when he kept talking about the office rooter. It was explained that it was called here a router and the office rooter was a guy always trying it on the the secretaries.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1412112 | 2015-11-29 06:57:00 | I think a lot of people in NZ used to pronounce route as "root" here. I know I did until intermediate in the early 80's when I switched to how I say it now to avoid the childish responses you get from saying "root" around other kids. I can only assume I pronounced it that way because that's what I'd heard up until then. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1412113 | 2015-11-29 07:18:00 | I've never heard a yank ever call a router a rooter, only the poms. I remember back in the later 1990s a pom from UK Nortel came across to tell us all about Nortel Networks latest and greatest and wonder why the smirks when he kept talking about the office rooter. It was explained that it was called here a router and the office rooter was a guy always trying it on the the secretaries.. The problem is that many/most Americans do not know how to pronounce French words or words adopted from the French. For example they have a Notre Dame university, which they pronounce as in "there is nothing like a dame" The confusion may arise from the router cutting tool, a different derivation from router derived from route, a direction. Webster, the American dictionary makes it clear: www.merriam-webster.com router: the tool, rhymes with doubter, flouter, grouter, outer, pouter, scouter, shouter, spouter, touter router: the electronic device, rhymes with neuter, fluter, hooter, looter, pewter, rooter, scooter, shooter, souter, suiter, suitor, tooter, tutor New Zealanders have the same problem being so far removed from continental influences, which is why they don't correctly pronounce words like secateurs, or penchant, and a host more words borrowed from the French. The French word for router is routeur. The Canadians outside of French speaking Canada are equally bad at pronouncing French place names, and they have heaps. They are trapped between their English heritage on the one hand and nearness to America on the other, so pronunciation of words is mixed, sometimes English, sometimes American. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1412114 | 2015-11-29 17:39:00 | I think a lot of people in NZ used to pronounce route as "root" here. I know I did until intermediate in the early 80's when I switched to how I say it now to avoid the childish responses you get from saying "root" around other kids. I can only assume I pronounced it that way because that's what I'd heard up until then. Usually the Yanks say Rout instead of route |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1412115 | 2015-11-29 18:01:00 | We had an American in our company who often talked about his wife's fanny. He thought he was referring to her bottom. Eventually we had to put him right., as he wondered why we always laughed. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1412116 | 2015-11-29 18:02:00 | Route 66. The americans say what? Root 66. Hence rooter. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1412117 | 2015-11-29 20:05:00 | "Play around for long enough and you may find the perfect spot" - her words, not mine... | John H (8) | ||
| 1412118 | 2015-11-29 20:19:00 | (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 www.youtube.com |
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