Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!qantel!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!tikal!amc!ivester
From: ivester@amc.UUCP (Paul Ivester)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: Americanisms and Canadianisms
Message-ID: <147@amc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 10:51:43 EST
Article-I.D.: amc.147
Posted: Thu Jan 16 10:51:43 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jan-86 03:31:44 EST
References: <974@lsuc.UUCP> <8086@ucla-cs.ARPA> <129@ubc-cs.UUCP> <965@terak.UUCP> <750@othervax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ivester@amc.UUCP (Paul Ivester)
Distribution: na
Organization: Applied Microsystems Corp.; Redmond, Wa.
Lines: 10


   >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"?
   In article <750@othervax.UUCP> ray@othervax.UUCP (Raymond D. Dunn) writes:
>They pronounce it as root...

Yes, but do you pronounce the vowel in root as in boot or as in book?
Around Seattle, most people pronounce it as in book, though it often
can vary with context.