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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: American routs, Canadian roots
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 15:17:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 15:17:41 1986
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[January is Eat More Wombats Month]

>> Eh?  There are patches on the map where "rowt" is entrenched, but the
>> standard in the U.S. is still "root."
> 
> Are you implying that Illinois is a "patch"? You overestimate the
> standardness of "root."

No, Illinois is more of a bug.  They haven't released a patch for it
yet.
                                               __
My Webster's Collegiate 5 (1948) says: "\(rh _Root_ is now the generally
accepted form, but in special cases _rout_ (_ou_ as in _out_) prevails,
as in military use, among railroad men, and, colloq., of a delivery route."
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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