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I've always pronounced Nevada the second way, Sue--and so has everyone I know. Maybe that's another regional accent thing?

Not when you live in Nevada.

I have never heard Nevada pronounced as Nevoda, personally, and can see how that would be irritating to those who live there.

What drives me nuts is the extra "r" that people interject into my state, making it Warshington. And I hear it ALL the time. You don't warsh your hair, so seriously, call it WASHington.

Actually, I think the people who say Warshington *do* warsh their hair. :rolleyes:

What upsets me even more than that are people who automatically think Washington means D.C. Believe it or not, some numbskull gov't employee actually entered my info in the system so that my daughter's birth certificate says her mother was born in Tacoma, Washington, D.C.

Note: Edited by me after posting because I wanted to make it clear that the rolled eyes was not for you, EditorJax, but for people who say warsh and Warshington.

Actually, just to be confusing, there is a small town in Missouri: Nevada, Missouri.

It's pronounced "Ne-VAY-da."

Just to throw everyone totally off.

Oh, it's definitely rowt and rowter, always. "We'll take that route to get there" is "rowt". Pronouncing that "root" sounds vaguely odd, sort of funny and almost pretentious to me (I guess I have this image of the "posh British accent" from some movie or something). I don't know how I learned to pronounce it that way, but I did. Answering where I was from was tricky, though. My first 13 years of life were spent in the Midwest, and the rest after that in the West, but I've been going to college in the Midwest for the last 6 years . . . maybe I should've said middle instead of west? (And my parents come from the east, so if you mix their influence in, that muddles things more.)

I'm with Doranwen in pronunciation, rowt and rowter. However, when I think of the clothes brand, it's root 66. I don't know what that means, but I can go both ways with route. It's always rowter, though.

I pronounce it "rooter", because that's what they pronounce it in Greek - we tend to read "ou" as "oo", because of the Greek ου which is pronounced as "oo". It hadn't occurred to me that it could be pronounced as "rowter"!

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AnnaBtG.

I say router, because it not only looks like "route", it's also what the device does - routing traffic. I'm from Germany.

It looks like in countries that don't speak english the norm is router pronounced as 'rooter'... In Portugal I've always heard it pronounced 'rooter' as well, but I don't think it has some particular reason for it to be that way. Probably someone mispronounced it the first time and it became the rule??

Back in the day (a couple of decades ago), I was working on a DOS-based application at my job, and one of the users pronounced the operating system like it was a measure of medicine or a Spanish two (DOSE instead of DOSS). Disk Operating System - the acronym is pronounced with a short 'o' (like in 'moss') unless you say 'operating' with a long 'o' like in 'go.'

I corrected him. He corrected me. I decided not to argue.

Not so, because in many English-speaking countries it's also pronounced 'rooter': in the UK and Ireland, in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as far as I know, and probably also India and Malta as those countries use British English.


Wendy

Sorry for my misconception . I got that idea from looking at the poll results (just checked them again to see if I was wrong the first time) and there were more votes on 'rowter' from people from places where english is the mother tongue.

But I suppose it's one of those words in which double pronunciation is accepted, especially considering the variety of accents that can be found in each country where english is primarily spoken. I think...

No, it's just one of those words - like tomato - which North Americans pronounce differently from other English speakers

Wendy

It is said rowter in the IT field in Australia and New Zealand.
Route however, depends on a number of things - which part of NZ/Au you're from (and hence the speech patterns prominent to a local area), how you were taught at school and under which system, industry you work in, etc.
I was taught it was 'root' at school, but on entering University was quickly corrected to 'rowt', which was (and still is as far as I know) the correct pronunciation for the geographic industry I was in. Road networking was referred to by rowts, not roots. Roots meant 'those things in the ground that feed trees' or.... well - you all read nfic.

It does bring up the interesting issue of speech patterns though.
I remember being in the US once and when I was asked where I was from I said Auckland "ork-land' but people kept thinking I was saying Oakland... despite the fact I really don't think my kiwi accent remotely even passes for any US accent.