In another life in the 90's, my sales partner and I paid a call on the
State of Kansas trying to sell them some consulting services.

Almost all the. Network engineers used the term rooter....   You had
to be there....  In Topeka Kansas with a Copenhagen dipping guys
calling their Cisco gear rooters..

Anyway...




On 11/3/07, der Mouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Some minor English dialects (e.g. en_US and en_CA) get the word
> > "route" (pr. root) mixed up with the word "rout" (pr. rowt);
>
> As opposed to others, which get "route" mixed up with "root", which
> also means something totally different (and, depending on exactly which
> dialect you speak, possibly even off-colour).
>
> Does anyone know of an en_* which pronounces "route", "rout", and
> "root" each distinct from the other two?
>
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