How do YOU say it?........

logic_user99 · Post by **logic_user99** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:05 pm

*wanders back in*

...and, yeah! Don't even get me started on apostrophes...

*wanders off again*

weeddigger · Post by **weeddigger** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:12 pm

A bare bear with no hair cries tears cause his ass has a tear. Fair or not, he still has to pay his fare when his hemorroids flare. Stare too long and he'll rip you one. It's not funny, but dumb to think you can just push and push when all you have is a little something deep in the tush...

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:12 pm

chrisedmo wrote:Route: (root) is in a journey or trip / distance..
Route: (rowt) is that thing that carpenters do to doors to make shapes and stuff with a router, is it not ?

The English language is messed up.

Thing that gets me is these words sound the same: Their, There, They're - must be confusing language to learn.

no,
the thing that carpenters do when the gouge out, or armies do when they are defeated is spelled "rout" (pr: rowt)

http://www.answers.com/rout

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:16 pm

I talk about a bus route (root), but use route (rowt) for everything technical: routing, routed...

When I was a teenager I worked for a video company and you just couldn't say "ROOTING SWITCHER" in front of the clients, not with "root" being a coarse antipodean term for congress between two consenting adults.

Johnny Beat · Post by **Johnny Beat** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:18 pm

More than 60% of the communication in English is made by non-English speakers, so...

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:20 pm

...1 in every 4 children is Chinese?

chrysalis33rpm · Post by **chrysalis33rpm** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:23 pm

dru wrote:How about good old GHOTI, read as FISH believe it or not.

GH in Enough
O in Women
TI in Nation

..Fish.

Nice.

How do the Brits pronounce the word 'colonel', out of curiosity?

Johnny Beat · Post by **Johnny Beat** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:26 pm

dru wrote:How about good old GHOTI, read as FISH believe it or not.

GH in Enough
O in Women
TI in Nation

..Fish.

I don't think it works that way... does it?

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:27 pm

same as kernel

8O · Post by 8O » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:27 pm

chrysalis33rpm wrote:How do the Brits pronounce the word 'colonel', out of curiosity?

Like "Kernel".
I always thought Route was pronounced
"Rowt" = US English
"Root" = UK English

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:28 pm

8O wrote: I always thought Route was pronounced
"Rowt" = US English
"Root" = UK English

You are correct sir.

And Rout is pronounced the same in both languages AFAIK ("Rowt")

logic_user99 · Post by **logic_user99** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:23 pm

8O wrote:
chrysalis33rpm wrote:How do the Brits pronounce the word 'colonel', out of curiosity?
Like "Kernel".
I always thought Route was pronounced
"Rowt" = US English
"Root" = UK English

I love it how the American's have claimed english for themselves... US English... PFFT.

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:29 pm

logic_user99 wrote:
8O wrote:
chrysalis33rpm wrote:How do the Brits pronounce the word 'colonel', out of curiosity?
Like "Kernel".
I always thought Route was pronounced
"Rowt" = US English
"Root" = UK English
I love it how the American's have claimed english for themselves... US English... PFFT.

yep, i find it seriously annoying when I have to install something in either German, French or US English. Why not just have English. No such thing as American English, just butchery

OvertoneZero · Post by **OvertoneZero** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:53 pm

U rowt audio but you drive a root

crumhorn · Post by **crumhorn** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:06 pm

Meef Chaloin wrote:rough
enough
slough

Loughborough

as in "can you tell me how to get to loogerborooger"