Your internet router…

Root er

A 'rout' is when you have overcome your opponents so overwhelmingly that they're running off as fast as they can in all directions🤣

Well I m not Scottish and I pronounce weather and whether the same How else do you say it

Weather is a definite W and Whether is a kind of HWhether on an outward breath.

iyswim

sorry I have completely lost the plot, the OP is Siope not Sago. I'll get my coat!

Pronounced 'R O O T E R'.........a ROUTER is a tool for cutting into and shaping wood, MDF etc

Ooh, I have a router.

Allira

Weather is a definite W and Whether is a kind of HWhether on an outward breath.

iyswim

Yes!!!
That explains perfectly what I meant.

However you like to say it is fine by me. Our technician says r-out-er, so when I’m talking to him I do the same. If someone mentions rooter I’m happy to go along with that.
Would you correct someone if you didn’t like the way they said it or just let it pass?

I say rooter, and also pronounce route as root. Whether, where and other words beginning with wh do sound different here in Scotland from the way they sound in at least some parts of England - when said by native speakers!

Always been a root er here

@biglouis

I think it’s a faucet rather than a forcet.

I suppose it depends how hard it is to turn on.
If it's difficult, then you forcet.

MissAdventure

I suppose it depends how hard it is to turn on.
If it's difficult, then you forcet.

🤣🤣🤣

Jaxjacky

The prononciation ‘rowt’ is American

But I thought Americans got their kicks on Root 66?

Good point.

@biglouis

I think it’s a faucet rather than a forcet.

Yes that was a typo.

Not to mention hoods and trunks on cars - or rather automobiles. I suppose in America they have "car trunk sales".

Do people who pronounce whether and weather the same, also say where and wear, which and witch in the same way?. In each of these the H is pronounced - where I come from anyway!

Router is the spelling for nothing the Internet gadget and the tool.

The tool is (in my house) pronounced the "rowt-er"
The other router (for the internet) is pronounced "root-er"

I think it's probably different in America.

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Rooter and router are the same, at least in English. In the US they do as they please with the English language because they don’t speak English, they speak American, and if we keep this in mind we don’t get frustrated by spellings used in wordle and quordle.

It's definitely rooooooooooooooter.
Isn't a "rowter" some sort of tool?

Yes, rowyn

I thought biglouis deliberately spelt it as ‘forcet’ to emphasise how it was pronounced?

‘Faucet’ could be ‘fowcet’.

(I digress).

Farmor15

Do people who pronounce whether and weather the same, also say where and wear, which and witch in the same way?. In each of these the H is pronounced - where I come from anyway!

They're all the same, here.
I might have a practice at sounding the H, though.

MissAdventure

It's almost like ah extra aitch in front of the w, I thought.
A wispy sort of aitch.

Another Scot here - although I haven't lived there for coming on 50 years. I still notice, and inwardly wince, when I hear my English pals ignore the 'h' in 'whether' - but more especially when they pronounce 'when' as "wen" and 'what' as "wat". And don't mention calling 'wheels' "weels".
So come on, all you Sassenachs: have a go at proper (ie Scottish) pronunciation. Start with saying 'when' as "w-hen" and then try to eliminate the "-".
Easy, eh?
No?
Ah, well; I suppose it's just a cross we exiles will have to continue to bear...

We were taught how to pronounce that wh at my English primary school.