Why do people, from the UK, call them "rooters"?

>be american
>be flabbergasted when people in england don't speak american english

Never gets old.

I call them BLOATERS
CAUSE THEY BLOAT

They don't, they call them hubs

Buy Microtik routers.

I'm australian and we call them rowter.
Am I stupid?

Raddahs

Quite possibly. Queenslander? Nobody I know south of Newcastle (with any class - I've heard of bogans who call them "rowter" because they, and their drunken, drug-addled mates, can't help sniggering at anything that starts with "root") calls them that.

I find it strange how Americanized Oz is.

New England?

Nah melbourne, middle class as they come.

Australian here, this is wrong.

You probably say 'cinemarr' and 'graf' too.
It's 'cinemuh' and 'grahff'

I'm from Scotland and I say it's rowter

Then WTF are you doing here? Escape while you can, user!

Actually, I do say "cinimuh" ("the pictures", actually) and "grarf". Also "plarnt", "marster", "carstle", etc.

it's a special kind of arrogance isn't it?

You didn't need any of those commas, OP.

I bet you call potato cakes "scallops" or some shit.

Sound like a mauzzie

Not who you're replying to, but yes. I'm not Victorian.

And a "mauzzie" is? I've never heard of it, and I'm pretty familiar with (what I'm presuming is a) racial slurs, being from Sydney and all.

Because a 'rowter' is used to drill holes in shit.

screwfix.com/c/tools/routers/cat830904

Internet routers are used to 'route' traffic. The song goes 'Get your kicks. On route 66'. He does not sing fucking 'rowt'.

Ameritards.

Remember, these are the people who shoot each other absolutely incessantly - a spot of retcon (World War II, anybody?) is peanuts compared to that.

Same reason they call fries chips, they butcher all of language.

>WE WERE ALWAYS AT WAR WITH EURASIA.
It's quite entertaining if you look at it just cock-eyed enough. Like the way little children really believe the Universe didn't actually exist until they were born.

how do people who say "rowter" pronounce this?

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How do you say route 66

"Rowt serksty-serks", apparently. I've seen some serious deep southern American inbreds say it that way on telly.

because they're next to France, and route in French is pronounced "root". it's kind of why they write metre (like French mètre) instead of meter.

I can't think of specific examples, but neighbors have influence. I bet there are words in Mexico and Spain that are different because they're next to France or US for the same reasons.

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Well here in Australia, router is rowter, and route is rowt. So we are consistant here.

It’s ‘root’ 66 only because it sounds better in song. Otherwise we’d say ‘rowt’.

Real Ausfag here, ignore this stupid cunt.

hmmm Ive always called it a blinky bill

The vastest majority of people simply call it a "modem" - which is every kind of wrong at once, but that's normies for you.

Route is root and Router is Rowter in Australia. Route is not a commonly use word anyway - we use alphanumeric system for highways, such as Pacific Hwy is M1 or Hume is A22 not 'Route 1' or 'Route 22'.

>Route is not a commonly use word anyway
Yeah, because of all the giggling like six year-olds that goes on when any homophone of "root" is uttered. Then we wonder why the rest of the planet mocks us at every turn...

>Pacific Hwy is M1 or Hume is A22
*hat tip, put away knife* Fellow Sydneysider.

US is actually like this too for the most part.
consider- Where do you get your kicks?
'rowte' 66 or 'root 66'

Because their government has banned assault vowels and that's the pronunciation they can get a temporary speech license for.

lel

That's actually pretty good.

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Because they route information to the correct subnetwork

Its ou, not ow btw

>inb4 FREEEEEDOM YEEEEEEEHAW

FREEEEEDOM YEEEEEEEHAW

Customers here in Holland call them rooters aswell every now and then.

I still get some lulz from a bunch of faggots who FORT 4 DEYR FWEEDOM FROM DEM REDCOATS... but still use miles, inches, gallons - that is, IMPERIAL measurements.

Yep. I've actually heard Yanks call imperial "freedom units". It's utterly hysterical.

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Even though they’re often referred to as imperial units US customary units are actually different. I agree that the irony is funny.

Vic here, that's how it's pronounced in my IT classes

>some shitbox public school teacher who probably reads Jow Forumsbuildpc for his/her IT knowledge said it, so it must be fact

Nigga do you even realize English came to US from England?

Australian public schools are nearly as bad as their American counterparts. Absolute joke - just rename the places "ice dispensaries" and drop the façade of being a place of learning.

No, they don't/can't realise that. It would destroy their fragile minds. Why do you think they hate Islam so much? It's fundy vs. fundy.

Never knew people pronounced it rooter. Everyone here in Melbourne says rOUTer.
In Australia when you say "route" you can get away with saying "root" or "rout", although the former would be more likely. But router is always "rout". And you always use a Boston "er". ROUTA

>people from different parts of the world say things differently

s h o c k i n g, a thread died for this shit.

It's called a "wifi"

>I bet there are words in Mexico and Spain that are different because they're next to France or US for the same reasons.
hormigón
concreto

ordenador
computadora

can you guess which one is european and which is american?

>pic related
checkmate atheist

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It's pronounced jer-aff dumbass.

I'm from Poland, and we say rooter, like sane tea-addicts from britain

this would actually be funny if it had any actual ground in reality

but it fucking doesnt so this is just more pretentious than anything

Uk people. A guy kept asking me for a "fun" it took a while for me to figure out he was saying fan

Really? why? Australia had so many americans during ww2 that there was no other outcome. Were essentially america liberated but then corrupted beyond beliefe

>And a "mauzzie" is? I've never heard of it
a mosquito
are you sure you're australian?

why america
call soldering "soddering"
call burgers "a sandwich"
call a path "the sidewalk"
???

It sounds better not in song, too. Rowt is a special kind of special needs.

A burger pint is like 300ml or some shit. What happened to everything being bigger in lardland?

>call soldering "soddering"
titters

well, it is not solely a router...

salmon - sam on
colonel - kernel
cough - coff
nation - nay shun

Every Hollywood movie I've ever seen uses the same pronunciation. Except salmon, I've never heard a burger say that

if you watched Blackadder it'd be funny because you read it in Hugh Laurie's voice

mirror - mrrrrr
squirrel - sqrrrrrrl
orange - orrrnj
Colin - coalin
Craig - creg

Are you retarded? A router routs not roots. Meaning completely changes

INSTALL LIBRECMC

It's 'licence' in Britain.

>entire world has American English classes starting in elementry school
>entire world has American English classes in high school
>entire world has America English classes in university
>entire world strives to learn English as their primary language

>arrogance

No, it routes (roots) traffic, a rout is when a defeated army runs away.

>actually believing this

mirror - meerer
squirrel - skwerl
orange - orenge
Colin - Colin
Craig - Crayg
retard - (You)

>>entire world has British English classes starting in elementry school
>>entire world has British English classes in high school
>>entire world has British English classes in university
>>entire world strives to learn English as their primary language

ftfy
not trolling

I always thought "breaddy stacks" was pretty funny, because it sounds like something people in my home city would say

t. grew up in York

>elementry
You didn't fix that

Actually we call them Wifi boxes.

The wiffy thing.

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Highway 66

actually this

"Route (root) 66" implies a road. If I wanted to go a different way I'd say "let's take a different route (rowt)." A route (root) is something your route (rowt) to. Route (root) is a noun and route (rowt) is a verb or a noun depending on the context.

I was walking into my hoose. There was a nail on my cooch. I sat on it and went ooch!