Language question

[AndyG]

Just wondering if this is a Canadian/American thing, or if there is any consensus  ....

When you create the hole in your guitar for a pickup or a bridge, is it a "root", or a "rowt"?

Or do you use the pronounciations interchangably?  (I have to "root" a "rowt" for my pickup).

By the same token, do you get your kicks on "root" or "rowt" 66?

 

[back2thefutre]

"rut"

 

[line6man]

I've never in my life heard anyone say "root" when referring to pickup routes. :blob7:

 

[AndyG]

I've never in my life heard anyone say "root" when referring to pickup routes. :blob7:

But a highway is "root" something-or-other, isn't it?  Spelled the same way .....

 

[nexrex]

Pretty sure in Australia its this way. All spelled as route. Pronounced "root" for the path you take to your destination. Pronounced "rowt" for a carved cavity in wood.  :icon_scratch:

 

[line6man]

I've never in my life heard anyone say "root" when referring to pickup routes. :blob7:

But a highway is "root" something-or-other, isn't it?  Spelled the same way .....

But people say "rowt" for pickup routes.
You never hear people say "I had my guitar rooted for new pickups," or "My, what lovely pickup rooting." :blob7:

 

[pabloman]

I've never heard anyone say "my, what lovely pickup rowting" either. That would probably make me giggle. Is it eether or eyether?

 

[Jusatele]

I have a friend who is a Chinese national, he told me once the hardest thing ab out learning English is that we have too many words. just look at the words all for dogs:stud, gyp, puppy,bitch, cur, mongrel,and the list goes on, instead of just dog, boy dog, girl dog, young dog.
he also states that we have to many countries speaking English and they all use different words or pronunciations.
Oh well.

 

[line6man]

I have a friend who is a Chinese national, he told me once the hardest thing ab out learning English is that we have too many words. just look at the words all for dogs:stud, gyp, puppy,bitch, cur, mongrel,and the list goes on, instead of just dog, boy dog, girl dog, young dog.
he also states that we have to many countries speaking English and they all use different words or pronunciations.
Oh well.

Yeah, but the Chinese language has WAY too many characters in it! :blob7:

 

[llmtelecaster]

USA numba 1 long time

 

[KainThornn]

I have a friend in Canada who likes to go "oat and a boat"... :laughing7:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

rowt

done by a rowter

 

[pabloman]

BTW Don't ever group America and Canada together as if they are one ever again.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

+1

It's an insult to Canadians.

 

[B3Guy]

rowt

done by a rowter

exactly the logic I was about to pull out. are there really folks out there who call it a "rooter"?

 

[OzziePete]

BTW Don't ever group America and Canada together as if they are one ever again.

+1

It's an insult to Canadians.

I was politely but firmly told by a Canadian once, that if I couldn't detect the accent too well, to ask them which part of NORTH AMERICA they came from. "Never call a Canadian an American"..... I guess it's kinda like New Zealanders taking umbrage to being called Aussies. :laughing7:

 

[line6man]

BTW Don't ever group America and Canada together as if they are one ever again.

I don't see what the problem is. He's not putting them together as one, he's speaking in reference to both.  Perhaps he should have used the word "and" instead of the slash?

 

[AutoBat]

just remember, everyone that lives in the colored portion of this map is an American:

and yes, many other countries laugh when we say we're American.  The term in every other language equates to United Stater.

 

[mayfly]

BTW Don't ever group America and Canada together as if they are one ever again.

+1

It's an insult to Canadians.

I guess it's kinda like New Zealanders taking umbrage to being called Aussies. :laughing7:

For extra fun ask an Irishman which part of England they are from.  Make sure you have running shoes on.

 

[Dan025]

BTW Don't ever group America and Canada together as if they are one ever again.

+1

It's an insult to Canadians.

I guess it's kinda like New Zealanders taking umbrage to being called Aussies. :laughing7:

For extra fun ask an Irishman which part of England they are from.  Make sure you have running shoes on.

yeah even the welch dont like that question. england (the island) is england, the uk is england part of irland, whales, ect... not sure if britain is synonymous with uk or england or another slightly different definition all together.