ewf@ihuxr.UUCP (Gene Foster) (04/04/84)
Three words come to mind regarding this discussion. They are roof, root, and route. I say roof with the double O sound of hook or book. Easterners say it with the double O sound as in proof. Same thing with root. I say route like bout only with an r. Others say route to sound like group. gene foster ihuxr!ewf
smw@tilt.UUCP (Stewart Wiener) (04/04/84)
>From: ewf@ihuxr.UUCP (Gene Foster) > >Three words come to mind regarding this discussion. They are >roof, root, and route. I say roof with the double O sound of hook >or book. Easterners say it with the double O sound as in proof. >Same thing with root. I say route like bout only with an r. >Others say route to sound like group. At Princeton, I was watching the Mondale/Hart/Jackson debate last week with a roomful of people. Mondale referred to a 'roof' on something, pronounced like Gene does. The consensus in the room was that we wouldn't vote for anyone silly enough to pronounce roof that way! -- Stewart Wiener :-) "Read and weep as did Princeton Univ. EECS :-) Alexander when he beheld {allegra,ihnp4!mhuxi}!princeton!tilt!smw :-) the glories of Egypt."
stekas@hou2g.UUCP (J.STEKAS) (04/05/84)
Speaking of "roof, root and route" - in SW Pennsylvania there is a
tendency to pronounce "pool" and "pull" identically, rhyming both
with "rule".
Another interesting pronounciation is "high-th" for "hight", which seems
common in the mid-west. Was this introduced by a bad speller many years
ago? Funny, the same people invariably pronounce "right" as "rite".
Jimaeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) (04/05/84)
Oh yes.... Another curious pronunciation I hear from a few people here in
Indiana is that "push" is pronounced almost as "poosh", with a long double-o.
Takes a little getting used to....
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-- Jeff Sargent
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Have you hugged your junk mail today?cwb@cbneb.UUCP (Bill Brown) (04/06/84)
Coming from an area between the East and the Midwest (eastern Ohio) I seem to split the difference on root and roof: root rhymes with shoot and roof tends to have the oo sound of book (but sometimes the other sound creaps in). Route sounds like root or rout, depending upon context -- but I haven't figured out exactly what about the context matters (It's not noun vs. verb).