The Pronunciation Thread

[Gwylan]

When I first learned about networking it back in the mists of time was on a course given by an American, so to me a router (networking device) is a rowter. I think this is fairly common among IT people, even UK-English speakers.

Of course if I had a thing that did things with say, cycling routes, it would be a "rooter"

A router (pronounced) rowter is a thing for cutting slots and things in woodwork.
A router ( pronounced) rooter or rowter if your from the colonies, is an electronic device for processing communications between devices.
Oh grief, it's raining I'm stuck indoors doing displacement activity.
Gwylan, get a grip and get on with something sensible and productive.

 

[Alex321]

Schedule.

Everybody I know over c45 years of age, correctly pronounces this with a silent "c".

Younger than this, it tends to be pronounced with a "k".

Does my head in.

I think I have always pronounced it as skedule, and I am 65.

Loughborough throws a few as does Coalville (it's Co-ville if you live there)

And only about 30-40 miles away from there you have Wymondham in Lincolnshire, and Belvoir (pronounced Windham and Beever respectively).

That thing most of you are using just now a router.
It’s rooter surely not an American rowter

But then the Americans pronounce route as rowt, when using it to describe a path to take (or taken), so it is just an extension of this. It is ione Americanism which annoys me every time I hear it for some reason.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

I think I have always pronounced it as skedule, and I am 65.

That's fine Alex, you can be the exception that proves my rule then ;-).

Interestingly, I regard "skedule" as one of those "awful Americanisations" of British English.

As ever, only personal experience and opinion.

 

[Mr Celine]

Menzies or Mingis ? Dalziel or Dalyell ?
In Scotland a ‘z’ is often pronounced as either ‘g’ or ‘y’.

Cadiz Street in Leith. Pronounced Kaydy Street.

Admiralty Street in Leith. Pronounced with an extra i as Admir-ality Street

 

[DaveReading]

But then the Americans pronounce route as rowt, when using it to describe a path to take (or taken)

Or not, as the case may be.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Cadiz Street in Leith. Pronounced Kaydy Street.

Admiralty Street in Leith. Pronounced with an extra i as Admir-ality Street

There's a Cadiz street or road in New Orleans, near where my sister used to live. It's pronounced KAY-diz.

 

[Alex321]

Or not, as the case may be.

True.

I wonder if that has always been an oddity, or whether usage has changed in the last 80 years or so.

 

[Gwylan]

A router (pronounced) rowter is a thing for cutting slots and things in woodwork.
A router ( pronounced) rooter or rowter if your from the colonies, is an electronic device for processing communications between devices.
Oh grief, it's raining I'm stuck indoors doing displacement activity.
Gwylan, get a grip and get on with something sensible and productive.

I can report I fettled the dehumidifier. A £20 spare refurbished the machine
I feel I have saved £180 by this action.
Do I have £180 to spend (squander). But these are Thames Water pounds and exist only in the imagination of the beholder.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I can report I fettled the dehumidifier. A £20 spare refurbished the machine

Ah, the d'humma-diffier eh? Good to hear that you refubeeshed it.

 

[robjh]

That's fine Alex, you can be the exception that proves my rule then ;-).

Interestingly, I regard "skedule" as one of those "awful Americanisations" of British English.

As ever, only personal experience and opinion.

Same for me as @Alex321 - aged 62 and have always used the sk- pronunciation of schedule. I've occasionally forced myself to use the sh- version but it doesn't come naturally. I grew up on the edge of London and guess that sk- was just more common in that environment at that time.

 

[Drago]

Schedule is with the soft sh- sound.

 

[robjh]

Schedule is with the soft sh- sound.

Where did you grow up? Have you only ever pronounced it that way?

Genuine question, as the responses on here show that both pronunciations have been common in the UK for a long time.

 

[Drago]

Where did you grow up? Have you only ever pronounced it that way?

Genuine question, as the responses on here show that both pronunciations have been common in the UK for a long time.

Shetland, Kent, prep school in Surrey, briefly public shool in Berkshire, state school in Buckinghamshire.

Then Army all over the place, USA for 6 months BG'ing, then my dibble career in two different farces, and it always been "sh".

 

[DaveReading]

Genuine question, as the responses on here show that both pronunciations have been common in the UK for a long time.

I agree, I'd put it about 50:50

At least that's my experience, having worked for many years in the airline industry where, unsurprisingly, it's a term that's used all the time.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

As the numpty that first raised the word on here, as I originally said, I genuinely have never come across anybody aged over mid forties who says "skedule", whilst most people I know under that age do.

Just my experience.