Your internet router…

The woodwork router cuts a groove in a piece of wood - it does much the same thing as an army cutting a wide path through the enemy in a military rout (rowt)

The internet router is the route (root) from your device to websites on the net, and also these days to your printer and other devices.

yes, it's pronounced 'roo tuh'

www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+router

also faucet for tap.

biglouis

*The prononciation ‘rowt’ is American*

Yes. one of the things I had to get used to when I worked over there. Also:

Depot = deepow
Vase = vaze
Curtains = drapes
Tap = forcet
Cushion = pillow (but they also use cushion)
Single bed = twin bed
Duvet = comforter
Pavement = sidewalk
Take away = to go
Post or send = ship (regardless of mode of transport)
handbag = purse (but change purse for small purse/wallet)

Americans also often insert extra words where we would not find them necessary:-

(Me) I post next day
(American) I do ship next day

Two peoples divided by a common language

And while we say burgled, they say burglarized 🤣🤣

In this house, both Geordies, we say rooter. Or 'that blasted thingy'!

Router (rhymes with outer) for routing wood.
Router (rhymes with hooter) for routing internet. IMO

Spelt Router pronounced rooter.

Also, I’m in the rooter camp.

I’m Scottish, and most definitely pronounce weather and whether differently. I don’t drop the ‘ h ‘. When teaching infants, I always reminded them that when saying ‘ wh ‘ words, there should be a little blowing from the ‘ wh ‘ part, and we’d practise by placing a hand in front of their mouths in order to feel ‘ blow ‘.

It’s “rooter” from me & Himself here up north.

Me an awl.

MissAdventure

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.

Well I never, haven't been pronouncing the 'wh' at all, just how do you do that?
Whether and weather are the same to me, as is where and wear.
Also where I am from originally in Lancashire they regularly drop the 'h' so the word 'happen' becomes 'appen', and 'house' becomes 'ouse'.
Am a lost cause x

The further up I went in Scotland, the more I noticed the wispy H.
I suppose it's that wwwhich makes the gentle sound in the accent?

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

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...

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.

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

‘Faucet’ could be ‘fowcet’.

(I digress).

Yes, rowyn

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

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.

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.

www.google.com/search?q=router+meaning&oq=router+meaning&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg8MgYIAhBFGDwyBggDEEUYPNIBCDc3MTNqMGo0qAIBsAIB&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&chrome_dse_attribution=1

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!

@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".

Good point.

Jaxjacky

The prononciation ‘rowt’ is American

But I thought Americans got their kicks on Root 66?

MissAdventure

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

🤣🤣🤣

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