posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 08:05pm on 2006-11-12
Some dialects of English don't distinguish between "rout" and "route" (or "route" and "root") in pronunciation, similar to how some dialects of English don't distinguish between "caught" and "cot," and "marry," "Mary," and "merry." (The Quebec-French pronunciation of "route," as in "Frappons la route," has a vowel sound intermediate between "root" and "rut," just to complicate things.

Oddly, I'd say "rowter box," but "Root 66," but Canadian English tends towards pronunciational schizophrenia anyhow.

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