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Message 1813919 - Posted: 30 Aug 2016, 21:13:51 UTC - in response to Message 1813908.  

You got me! I expected that the second image
was going to be of some sort of animal.




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Message 1813929 - Posted: 30 Aug 2016, 21:44:24 UTC - in response to Message 1813908.  

Prefer pics to describe, more funnier :-)

Rawters

Rooters

Just have to make sure you don't try to plug Rawter bits into a Rooter :-)

You missed a real rooter
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Message 1813931 - Posted: 30 Aug 2016, 21:45:49 UTC - in response to Message 1813929.  

Prefer pics to describe, more funnier :-)

Rawters

Rooters

Just have to make sure you don't try to plug Rawter bits into a Rooter :-)

You missed a real rooter

As opposed to H00ters. ;) Sorry I just can't help it.
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Message 1813939 - Posted: 30 Aug 2016, 22:03:41 UTC

Thx so far everybody, I guess I stick with "rooter" since "rowter" still sounds very strange to my ears. Never heard anybody in Austria or Germany pronounce it like that either. That's why I was so surprised by all those guys on yt. Guess they were all Americans.
Although now I wonder if there's a secret third pronouncation only Canadians use;-)
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Message 1813948 - Posted: 30 Aug 2016, 22:38:16 UTC - in response to Message 1813919.  

You got me! I expected that the second image
was going to be of some sort of animal.




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Sorry :-)
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Message 1813951 - Posted: 30 Aug 2016, 22:43:34 UTC
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People please just dig down for your answer. The first multiprotocol routers were independently created by staff researchers at MIT and Stanford in 1981; the Stanford router was done by William Yeager, and the MIT one by Noel Chiappa.

Therefore it's pronunciation is not American, British, Canadian, nor Auzzi.
It's Californish!
Rrwowter, dude.
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Message 1813968 - Posted: 30 Aug 2016, 23:47:46 UTC - in response to Message 1813939.  

Thx so far everybody, I guess I stick with "rooter" since "rowter" still sounds very strange to my ears. Never heard anybody in Austria or Germany pronounce it like that either. That's why I was so surprised by all those guys on yt. Guess they were all Americans.
Although now I wonder if there's a secret third pronouncation only Canadians use;-)

French Canadian perhaps.
Routeur:)
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Message 1813972 - Posted: 31 Aug 2016, 0:11:21 UTC - in response to Message 1813951.  

Rrwowter, dude.


There you go, the last word at last, Thank you Carlos!



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Message 1813981 - Posted: 31 Aug 2016, 0:50:11 UTC

Then there is Roto-Rooter, nope it has nothing to do with computers, but most homeowners in the US should know them.
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Message 1814011 - Posted: 31 Aug 2016, 2:10:01 UTC

The carpentry tool and the network device are both spelled and pronounced the same. The vowel sound of the first syllable is the same as in cow, or as in "Pow! Right in the kisser!" It is not the same as in boot (in either British, American, Canadian, or German).

Ask a Canadian to say "about" some time. That'll really confuse you.
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Message 1814044 - Posted: 31 Aug 2016, 3:48:34 UTC - in response to Message 1814011.  

The carpentry tool and the network device are both spelled and pronounced the same. The vowel sound of the first syllable is the same as in cow, or as in "Pow! Right in the kisser!" It is not the same as in boot (in either British, American, Canadian, or German).

Ask a Canadian to say "about" some time. That'll really confuse you.

That doesn't confuse Me.
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Message 1814056 - Posted: 31 Aug 2016, 5:09:56 UTC - in response to Message 1814054.  

The carpentry tool and the network device are both spelled and pronounced the same.

Not so fast.

a) Oxford Dictionaries: one spelling, two definitions, two pronunciations:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/router

b) Merriam-Webster: one spelling, three definitions, two pronunciations:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/router

Pronunciations in a) and b) differ from each others, too.



Yep just like said. The brits (Oxford) don't speak Californian. But Webster does.
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Message 1814147 - Posted: 31 Aug 2016, 13:53:42 UTC - in response to Message 1814056.  

The carpentry tool and the network device are both spelled and pronounced the same.

Not so fast.

a) Oxford Dictionaries: one spelling, two definitions, two pronunciations:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/router

b) Merriam-Webster: one spelling, three definitions, two pronunciations:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/router

Pronunciations in a) and b) differ from each others, too.


Yep just like said. The brits (Oxford) don't speak Californian. But Webster does.

a) The Brits let the 'er' fade off into 'ah'. This is probably how it is in Boston, too. However, on that page is a link to their own version of the American English dictionary, where this does not happen.

b) Chicago is considered Standard American English (Superfans of Da Bearz from the Sout' Side notwithstanding) and I say both meanings are pronounced the same, the way Webster says for the power tool. However, I recognize that large parts of the country pronounce route as root, so I will allow it as an acceptable alternative. (Meanwhile, we in Chicago often tend to pronounce root and roof with the same vowel sound as book.)
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Message 1814148 - Posted: 31 Aug 2016, 13:58:26 UTC

'oi - not all Brits are that sloppy, some of us take great pride in getting the "er" a the end to be a proper rolling "err" sound.
There is a great danger in generalising pronunciations, there are so many regional variation even in this small group of islands off the West Coast of Europe.
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Message 1814411 - Posted: 1 Sep 2016, 20:16:49 UTC - in response to Message 1814148.  

'oi - not all Brits are that sloppy, some of us take great pride in getting the "er" a the end to be a proper rolling "err" sound.
There is a great danger in generalising pronunciations, there are so many regional variation even in this small group of islands off the West Coast of Europe.

Explain that to OED.

If you have so many variations in your small group of islands, imagine how many we have in these two countries that cover most of a continent.
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Message 1815384 - Posted: 6 Sep 2016, 18:59:46 UTC

This mysterious equipment appeared on a new pole a few blocks from my house. Any ideas on what in the world it is?




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Message 1815395 - Posted: 6 Sep 2016, 19:53:14 UTC - in response to Message 1815384.  

This mysterious equipment appeared on a new pole a few blocks from my house. Any ideas on what in the world it is?

No, but I'd upgrade from tinfoil to silver plated copper for the hat. Lower electrical resistance.
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Message 1815398 - Posted: 6 Sep 2016, 20:05:39 UTC - in response to Message 1815384.  

Gordon, if you find out they will take drastic measures.
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Message 1815457 - Posted: 6 Sep 2016, 22:55:09 UTC - in response to Message 1815384.  

This mysterious equipment appeared on a new pole a few blocks from my house. Any ideas on what in the world it is?

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Wireless internet antenna for some isp maybe, I don't know.
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Message 1815560 - Posted: 7 Sep 2016, 14:27:17 UTC - in response to Message 1815384.  

This mysterious equipment appeared on a new pole a few blocks from my house. Any ideas on what in the world it is?

If you're in a dense urban are with lots of high-traffic railroads all around, it could be a ground station for Positive Train Control. I'm not saying it is, just throwing that out as a possibility.
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