Got in discusion regarding how to pronunsiate ROUTE.Like in Route 66.Need help from Americans here.Do you guys say root or raut?

 

I've all ways considered both correct.

But its "raut" around here.

 

http://grammarist.com/usage/root-route-rout/

 

Either way I believe, although route not root is how most American pronounce it.

 

With "ow" as in "Ouch, that hurts"...

I don't see how one can get one's kicks on "rowt" 66, nor would your computer network device be a "rooter".

 

Either way, but my English is wacky.

 

Like the tomato pronunciation, depends on where your from.

 

Root 66 in Texas.

 

I always said it the other way. But hey I'm from Jersey.

 

I always heard it pronounced Root 66. I found a episode of Route 66 on utube and thought they might have an into but no they did not. Here is the clip anyway. There are a couple of Oldsmobiles early in the episode.

 

When I'm in NY, I say "root," but everywhere else, I say "rout."

However, when discussing that particular highway, I have only ever heard it referred to as "'Root' Sixty-Six."

- Eric

 

Root........

 

at Sonic's down here we order a "Root" 44 Orange Cream Slush...

 

Growing up in blue collar New England, it was always "root"; hoity toity folks said "raut".

But then we said "Bahstan" also...

And all soda was "tonic". I got a rude awakening when I moved to SoCal.

 

Joe, at least you didn't move to the south where all sodas were cokes. I was raised there and am serious as I can be. You want a coke? What kind? This might tie in with the redneck thread.

 

I actually knew that from one of those articles about regional dialects. Skillet vs. frying pan, for example.

 

Or "dinner" vs "supper."

Here in northern New England, the old timers and long-time natives stick to the traditional formulation: Dinner is the afternoon meal, while suppah is the smaller before-bed meal.
So a lot of folks will say "dinner" when they mean what I would call "lunch."

And never mind those Cokes. Folks hereabouts drink Moxie.

- Eric

 

Eric, I have to say I never heard of Moxie and I have been around a few years.

 

It's a soda-ish sort of a drink, sweet, a bit like root beer or birch beer, but with bitter, medicinal herb flavors as well.

To call it an acquired taste is an understatement.

- Eric

 

The song, written in 1946 and recorded by many artists over the years, is called "Get Your Kicks on ROOT 66", not "Rowt 66". Good grief. It's pronounced ROOT!



If you ever plan to motor west,
Travel my way, take the highway, that's the best.
Get your kicks on Route 66.

It winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2000 miles all the way,
Get your kicks on Route 66.

Now you go through Saint Louie,
And Joplin, Missouri,
And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty, you'll see...
Amarillo...
Gallup, New Mexico,
Flagstaff, Arizona,
Don't forget Winona,
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino.

Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip?
Get your kicks on Route 66.

Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip?
Get your kicks on Route 66...
Get your kicks on Route 66...
Get your kicks on Route 66!

 

This is true in North Texas where I grew up.
I moved to Central Texas and they are all
called soda water. I thought that was strange.

 

I say both, root and route. Depends who I'm talking to... Being from Chicago and working for a company with a corporate office in northern Wisconsin, I've learned a few things.

Chicago folks drink pop, most others drink soda.

 

I grew up in Southern Oregon but in my teens I lived in upstate New York for a short time. When the family moved my step brother an I were trying to wrestle a couch out the front door, I said lets try caddy corner, and he said we should try kitty corner.

Just depends on where you live...

 

Did you put the couch in the frunchroom, or living room?

 

Now I don't remember that word! Here in Orygun we call it the living room

 

Around here:

root

pop

living room

breakfast, lunch, dinner. My Dad said they used to say dinner and supper but dinner and supper are the same as far as I am concerned.

 

There is an 'E' on the end of that word which dictates that it is pronounced rooooot.

 

You colonials need a damn good horsewhipping!!!
Of course it's ROOT.
The Queen pronounces it that way, that's why!.



Not everything I post is to be taken seriously.


Roger.

 

All of this wants me to get a glass of NJ wooder to drink.

 

You got a problem with me saying frunchroom?.. lol I've said it that way my entire life born and raised in Chicago. I guess it's just the way front room rolls off the tongue when you say it fast enough. And to me it's ROOT as well. Growing up it was worse. Tree and Three were the same word along with many other mispronounced words but i've curbed my Chicago accent a bit being on the phone all the time at work.

 

Michigan is pop, Wisconsin is soda. That was tough change to make when we moved here. And it was fizzy drink in England, except for orange soda, which was always called Fanta.
I've always said rout, except for Root 66.

 

Get your kicks on root 66

Craig,with all due respect. You were "Reared in Chicago" you "raise", hogs, goats sheep, cows, chickens etc. You "rear chill'en"

BTW It's a "Coke ola"

Dinner is de noon time meal.

How do I know?................... god talks like Herman Talmadge.

 

It's funny I say "root" and "raut" You go on a paper "raut" or even State "raut" 96. But for my kicks I head to "root" 66

 

Scot, I'd forgot 'bout my paper raut.

 

Seems like we were both right then,thank you.

 

Actually, I raise my children .. but I reared the missus last night

All you folks that say it a certain way because some bint in a tight skirt sung it that way ... might want to remember it's the Queen's english.

 

Ok this is how it works out east
Its soda and tonic NOT POP
They get their beer at the packie
'Pissa' is good
Route is pronounced root
it's a blinka not a turn signal
And if we dont know what type of car it is it's a POS
A station wagon is a beach wagon.
Oh ya a milk shake is a frappe!!!!

 

And "wicked pissah" is REAL good...

I remember going to Friendly's, where a milk shake was a drink with milk; you had to specify a frappe to get ice cream in it.

And nobody in Bahston ever used blinkas.

 

Hey Joe great stuff. When I head home I hit friendlys and if possible Brighams.
And yes we never use blinkas...I dont even think we know where it is !!!!!!

 

Cordial- the flavouring that goes with water, ie red, lime, orange etc
Cordial- soft drink or soda
Soft drink- cordial or soda
Coke- Coke a Cola
Brekky- breakfast
Blinker- blinkah- indicator
Bogan- white trash
Houso- white trash
Houso- government housing dweller
White trash-see above x 3
Tea- dinner when I was growing up
Root-66
Dunno- do not know