Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:30:25 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>
>
>>I teach on both sides of the Atlantic, and have learned to draw a mental
>>breath before trying to pronounce the word "router". Americans find the
>>British pronunciation ("rooter") hilarious, despite the fact they tell
>>me I drive on "Root 66" to get to DC. The Brits are politer, and only
>>snigger behind my back when I pronounce it as Americans do, to rhyme
>>with "outer".
>>
>
> Strange... I never knew Route 66 got that far east... As I recall,
> it runs (ran) from ~Los Angeles across the southwest before making an
> upward turn through Missouri (where it passed just outside of Ft.
> Leonard Wood) and there from meandered through St. Louis and up toward
> Chicago...
>
The Route 66 that runs past Manassas and into DC appears to be a
completely different Interstate from the one made famous by the Chuck
Berry song, and I was really confused by it when I moved to the DC Metro
area.
> Then again, from the "new world" perspective... A "route" is a fixed
> path between points... A "router" is something that dynamically
> determines paths -- so it may be seen as a different derivation...
>
> {Or as I learned on my previous department: A pub's a bar, a bar's a
> gate, a gate's a street}
>
:-)
regards
Steve
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