Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!noao!terak!suze From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: Americanisms and Canadianisms Message-ID: <988@terak.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 11:18:56 EST Article-I.D.: terak.988 Posted: Thu Jan 16 11:18:56 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jan-86 05:25:54 EST References: <974@lsuc.UUCP> <8086@ucla-cs.ARPA> <129@ubc-cs.UUCP> <992@mmintl.UUCP> <143@ubc-cs.UUCP> Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 31 > In article <992@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes: > >In article <129@ubc-cs.UUCP> ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann) writes: > >> Canadian usage American usage > >> -------------- -------------- > >> route (pronounced "root") (pronounced to rhyme with "out") > > > >Which pronunciation of "root" did you have in mind? Some people pronounce > >it to rhyme with "boot"; others rhyme it with "soot". > > > >The pronunciation of "route" to rhyme with "boot" is not a pure Canadianism, > >in any case; I have heard it quite often in the U.S. > > I pronounce "route" to rhyme with "boot". Where does the rhyming with > "soot" come from (I've never heard it, although I have heard "roof" > pronounced with the same vowel (American only))? > It isn't the word "route" that is sometimes rimed with "soot". It is the word "root" (you know, the part of a plant that grows below the ground). I would have said it is pronounced closer to "rut", but on reflection, that which I've heard is somewhere between the vowel sound in soot and that in rut. That was the way a high scholl friend and her mother pronounced it. They were originally from Missouri, I think, but I don't know if that is where they got that pronunciation, or if it came from somewhere else they'd lived. -- Suzanne Barnett-Scott uucp: ...{decvax,ihnp4,noao,savax,seismo}!terak!suze CalComp/Sanders Display Products Division 14151 N 76th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 (602) 998-4800