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I would just pronounce it like "coke" and it would just sidestep the whole pronunciation issue. I'm not sure how most people pronounce it but that's what I would do to talk to my boss about it.

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My favorite quote on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10728995

"I'm a coke user boss, have you ever tried it? If I have a hard problem it really focuses the mind."

I refer to it as "the See Oh Queue theorem proover" at work, which seems to get the idea across.

This is the precise reason why "route" is pronouced "root" but "router" is mysteriously pronounced "raow-ter". No-one's gonna stand in front of a room full of people and talk about the "rooter".

Huh, TIL. As a non-native English speaker, I have always pronounced "route" as "raowt", probably influenced by the pronunciation of "router".

Btw, why is it "pronUnciation", but "pronOUced". English is hard.

> Btw, why is it "pronUnciation", but "pronOUced"

In Australian English, it is "pronOUNCiation"

A quick Google didn't supply any supporting evidence. Do you know of a reference?

That that's how it's pronounced in Australia? I don't know of any specific reference, it's just what I know from being familiar with Australian pronounciation (it's where I was born and live).

BTW, in case there has been some confusion here, since the topic was how things were said, I have been assuming this is what the person I was replying to was talking about, not spelling.

Ah thanks, I thought you were saying it was spelled with "ou".

> "This is the precise reason why "route" is pronouced "root"

Actually, this varies with dialect. Route can be pronounced either way: |ˈrüt| or |ˈrau̇t|

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/route

https://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_26...

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