Root vs Route

[masraum]

Originally Posted by kang

I think pronouncing route as root fits this category.

Interesting. I'm a network guy, so when I see "router" I think or say "rout er". When I see something like "Route 66" I think I usually go with "root", but not always, or maybe I only think that because of the "root 66" song being mentioned in this thread. If I was going to say something like "the route that I took to get there," then I would think "rout"

Normally, the only time that I think of route or router being pronounced as root or rooter would be if i was conversing with someone that normally spoke British English vs American English.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Charles Freeborn

And then there's incorrect word usage that got used so much it's become part of the language. The most annoying to me is the past tense of "to dive", which is dived not dove. As in "she dived into the pool".
A dove is a bird....

It's been 200 years, give it a rest!

Dived is the traditional past tense and past participle of the verb dive. But the newer dove, which probably came about by analogy with similar words like drove and wove, has been in the language approximately two centuries and is now standard in American and Canadian English.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by petrolhead611

I've heard Americans pronounce LIFT as elevator

Hilarious.

We also pronounce spanner as wrench and boot as trunk.

The one that gets me is when the Brits pronounce Aluminum as Aluminium.

[Charles Freeborn]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

Dove has been common usage in parts of the US and Canada for about two centuries. I don't really recall ever hearing anyone say dived.

Well then call me olde fashioned...I still think it sounds better as dived...

[Pazuzu]

There are some divers opinions on this subject, that's for sure!

[tcar]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

There are some divers opinions on this subject, that's for sure!

Diverse?

[black73]

Jewlery

[Mark Henry]

To me this is a bit stupid, but queen's english is close to how we speak in Canada, so I would say I live at Rural Route (root) #1, but as a child I had a paper route (rout).
I've heard it both ways, never thought anything of it.

I think if you were to trace most english words many of them are now pronounced incorrectly.

How about color vs colour? Dropping the U is strictly an american thing, almost out of laziness.
Or how you pronounce Z as Zee, when we say Zed. You got to admit a Camaro Z28 sounds way more bad ass when we call it a "Zedder" or Zed 28.

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

There are some divers opinions on this subject, that's for sure!

I would say dove or "we went on a dive yesterday morning".
I've never said dived, to me that's like saying mouses instead of mice.
BTW I'm a NAUI scuba diver since I was 13 years old, at the time I was the youngest certified NAUI "junior" diver in Canada.


BTW do you say "routine" r-out-ine or roo-tine?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Mark Henry

BTW do you say "routine" r-out-ine or roo-tine?

Or Pout-een or poot-een?

[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by masraum

Or Pout-een or poot-een?

I say I wouldn't eat that crap.

BTW it's French Canadian and pronounced correctly it's pou-tin.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Mark Henry

I say I wouldn't eat that crap.

BTW it's French Canadian and pronounced correctly it's pou-tin.

Interesting. Good to know.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by tcar

Diverse?

No, divers!

Which is pronounced the same as diverse, means the same thing, and was an accepted and common spelling of "diverse" for a long time

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by Charles Freeborn

Well then call me olde fashioned...I still think it sounds better as dived...

No worries.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by Mark Henry

I say I wouldn't eat that crap.

BTW it's French Canadian and pronounced correctly it's pou-tin.

Stuff looks pretty good.

Is it the health aspect or does if have a taste that is unappealing?

[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Stuff looks pretty good.

Is it the health aspect or does if have a taste that is unappealing?

Half bottle of oil with more grease on top, sodium count through the roof.
Many think it tastes great, personally I've always hated gravy on fries.
Hate to be a snob, but it's food for common tastebuds.

[KNS]

I'm seeing alot of spelling errors from you guys...

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by KNS

I'm seeing alot of spelling errors from you guys...

I'm seeing a lot of spelling errors....

[Mark Henry]

I think I used alot earlier to see if anyone would catch it.

We homeschooled our kids and did some co-op with other parents, I was double checking a boys essay for his mom and she had put in note "alot is not a word, it's a lot".
Beneath the note in very tiny printing was "My mom sucks alot."

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Is it the health aspect or does if have a taste that is unappealing?

The taste is awful! Greasy gravy on top of greasy french fries. Yuck! I was at a Mom and Pop "home cooking" place on some back road in Ontario and I could see them make an order of poutine. They poured frozen pre-cut potatoes into the frier and nuked half a jar of off the shelf gravy in the microwave. That's real home cookin' right there.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Charles Freeborn

And then there's incorrect word usage that got used so much it's become part of the language. The most annoying to me is the past tense of "to dive", which is dived not dove. As in "she dived into the pool".
A dove is a bird....

Another one is when the phrase "begs the question" is used to mean "raised the question." It's been used incorrectly so much that some grammarians say it is acceptable.