Pronounced "root" or route?

[Baal]

"Bus 'root' or route?"

My life has taken a different ["root" or route] than I had originally planned."

That's not the quickest ["root" or route]?

I've been listening to the way people pronounce the word route lately, in my attempts to perfect my English skills. Being from (particularly, Atlantic) Canada, we tend to make many mis-pronunciations, most of which I've ridden myself of.

The thing is, with route, I don't even know what the correct pronunciation is, depending on the usage, because it's so widely interchanged between "root" and route.

So HelpLife2.net, how do you pronounce the word referring to a course, way, or road for passage or travel

 

[Raziaar]

I use both. It's an interchangeable word. Both pronunciations are in common usage and accepted as proper.

 

[Absinthe]

Both ways.

I pronounce it "rout" when I wish to exude intelligence.

 

[Ennui]

Root, most of the time. At least, bus root, etc. I say route when it comes to "Let's take a different route".

 

[Hectic Glenn]

It's 'root' here for everything, 'rout' is always considered an standard American bastardisation.

 

[Dekstar]

Root. Though the American pronunciation is route (r-aw-t).

And for those that get this reference: You're not on my root, I mean route!

 

[Raziaar]

Root. Though the American pronunciation is route (r-aw-t).

And for those that get this reference: You're not on my root, I mean route!

I've never heard anybody pronounce it r-aw-t. It's pronounced commonly here as 'root', and 'rout'

Same way as if you say, "rout the enemies!"

 

[Baal]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/route#Pronunciation

But this doesn't help me, I'm in Canada!

I'm gonna be pretty happy once I find out how I should pronounce it as a Canadian.

 

[Qonfused]

I use both.

 

[Dekstar]

I've never heard anybody pronounce it r-aw-t. It's pronounced commonly here as 'root', and 'rout'

Same way as if you say, "rout the enemies!"

my phonetic spelling sucks. by r-aw-t I meant rout, as in to run away during combat.

 

[Dog--]

It depends, if I'm talking about a road or something, I'd say 'Route 9' or whatever.. If it's from point A to point B, then I'd say 'you take this root'


For me Route pronunciation is 'r-ow-t'.

 

[ríomhaire]

Root all the way! Rawt/rout means something entirly different.

 

[Raziaar]

Root all the way! Rawt/rout means something entirly different.

What, and root doesn't?

What do you people in that part of the world call the soil dwelling appendages of plants and trees? Wood Worms?

 

[theotherguy]

"root" and "route" read the same to me.

People pronounce it differently? I thought it was always pronounced "root".

Do you pronounce it "Rowt?" like "ow?"

 

[Raziaar]

"root" and "route" read the same to me.

People pronounce it differently? I thought it was always pronounced "root".

Do you pronounce it "Rowt?" like "ow?"

Yes... like ow. People pronounce it "root" and "rowt"... not like "rote"

 

[Jintor]

'Root' is slang over here, so we use the other one.

 

[Dan]

I say "rouwt" when I'm playing Rome Total War or something. I say "root" when I am talking about driving directions.

 

[Stigmata]

Both ways.

I pronounce it "rout" when I wish to exude intelligence.

Pretty much.

 

[MJ12]

Rowt -sounds like that

 

[Dog--]

Some people (Eastern Canada is where they speak it, don't know what accent that is, or where it's from..) pronounce it rot. (some)

 

[delusional]

I don't think I've ever said "root"

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Interchangeably, depending on usage

 

[Naph]

R-ow-t

 

[Hazar]

Root, most of the time. At least, bus root, etc. I say route when it comes to "Let's take a different route".

same here