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Grammar pedants - help please.

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swittle Nov 2019 6:34pm, 19 Nov 2019 58,553 posts	Quote Pin swittle 'Route' pronounced 'Root' both sides of the pond, I think!
sallykate Nov 2019 6:42pm, 19 Nov 2019 6,209 posts	Quote Pin sallykate I only know about routers (woodworking) from a friend who had slotted shelves put into a cupboard: the fitter used a router to round off the battens he used to make the shelves.
bree Nov 2019 9:41pm, 19 Nov 2019 5,910 posts	Quote Pin bree I always wondered whether the slightly prudish Americans pronounced it that way to avoid any confusion with "root" which in my local slang had ... err ... sexual connotations.
Peregrinator Nov 2019 11:11pm, 19 Nov 2019 320 posts	Quote Pin Peregrinator So root beer - a drink that an American childhood friend introduced me to - was something else? But I was told that referring to the stones in plums etc. as "pits" was for similar reasons
Dvorak Nov 2019 11:19pm, 19 Nov 2019 18,318 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak How we gonna kick it? Gonna kick it root down!
Peregrinator Nov 2019 12:17pm, 21 Nov 2019 324 posts	Quote Pin Peregrinator I'm citing you people ^^^ at my forthcoming appearance before the Beak for causing criminal damage.
LindsD Nov 2019 6:15pm, 21 Nov 2019 31,095 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Happy to be cited. That made me
sallykate Nov 2019 8:44am, 22 Nov 2019 6,213 posts	Quote Pin sallykate Pullman pulls no punches: metro.co.uk
Diogenes Nov 2019 9:14am, 22 Nov 2019 42,579 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes What was the crossed out bit in that sign?
GordonG Nov 2019 9:15am, 22 Nov 2019 7,908 posts	Quote Pin GordonG "is"?