Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Slowlearner
The key here is the word route - pronounced like rout (defeat) or the mechanical process of rout (as in the tool router used for wood/metal crafting) in the US and root in Anglophone countries.
Now routers do route data packets to their destination, and the first routers came from the US, IMHO the US pronunciation would be standard.
You're thinking about it too much.
It's a router, not a rooter.
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Roto-rooter, that's our name
And away go troubles down the drain.
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But then again, networking is literally nothing but a series of pipes and routers do flush packets down the drain - the bitbucket or null0
Wait!? What?