pronounciation: "router"

[ZokesPro]

No doubt!
Plus he has ALL the wood working tools! His workshop is the ultimate workshop!

[Fat Tone]

I have 1 1/2 r-OW-ters, and maybe a dozen bits. He has cupboards full, and more clamps than you can shake a very large stick at.

Sorry VJ

[VJ]

Well, I'm calling it a roo-ter...
(the network thingamajig)

My colleague says it it is a row-ter... Guess we won't settle the argument here...


Jörg

[KeiFront]

You can start a new argument about "query" .

[agallag]

I would recommend saying in the way that will get the least number of funny looks in the region you're currently in. In NA, you'd be wise to call it (the network version or the tool version) a ROW-ter, or many people would be confused.

I believe if you call it a ROO-ter in some parts of Australia and/or New Zealand, you'd get a lot of shock and/or laughter. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=root

[Jessterw]

While I pronounce 'route' like 'root', 'router' is definitely going to be 'row-ter', but not like 'row'. So maybe that should be like 'rou-ter' then...

Need more coffee.

[ZokesPro]

Call it a NAT device instead of roo/row-ter. If they ask you what a NAT device is, then you can officially call them noobs.

[Elie]

hehe, no even a firewall can NAT, so I wouldn't call it a NAT Box

From a networking perspective if you take the 7 layers of OSI, I would call it a layer three device

[gt40]

A roo-ter is someone that pulls up roots
I've atways called it a rou-ter (r-ow-ter)
except when it doesn't work, then I call it a POS

[KRSESQ]

A roo-ter is someone that pulls up roots

It can also be a person who cleans out clogged toilet lines.

Kevin

[TransformX]

Roo-ter makes me think of the dentist..

[Gurm]

Roto-rooter!

[Admiral]

It's generally roo-ter here but some people call it row-ter, in both cases people know what you're talking about.

[DGhost]

If you are talking about the piece of networking equipment the American-Engrish pronunciation is: rau-ter (r-ow (as in getting hurt and saying "OW!")-ter)

Say it any other way to a network or It guy and you'll get funny looks.

Jammrock

I'm with him on this...

[Gurm]

In the USA and Canada, if you work in IT, it's a r-OW!-ter. Period. Full stop. Anyone whose location tag says USA who says they pronounce it "Rooter" is probably the same kind of person who insists that Quahog is pronounced some way OTHER than "ko-hogg", or who insists on saying "GIF" as "Jiff" instead of "Giff". (G)raphics (I)nterchange (F)ormat. Guh... Ihh... FFF. GIF. These people get laughed at by people who know technology.

Now, the pronunciation of router is ironic, because the same group of people, myself included, pronounce route - as in the route you take to get somewhere, "root". However, someone who "routes" people or things from one place to another? "R-ow!-ter". One of the eccentricities of American Engrish for you!