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From: ray@othervax.UUCP (Raymond D. Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: Americanisms and Canadianisms
Message-ID: <750@othervax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 13:11:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 13:11:58 1986
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Reply-To: ray@othervax.UUCP (Raymond D. Dunn)
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Summary: 

In article <965@terak.UUCP> suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett) writes:
>....
>Is this also true of Canadians? Do they pronounce route both
>as "root" and to rime with "out"?
>....

They pronounce it as root, but of course they also spell rhyme correctly!

Ray Dunn.  ..philabs!micomvax!othervax!ray

[acclaimer: this is supposed to be humourous, not a spelling flame.]

 P.S. Why do we ALL pronounce ROUTER (the tool - same word derivation) to
 rhyme with OUTER.