Another Bushism

[Dennis R. Preston]

>I've always assumed this routing was like the tool the "router"
>(which I can only pronounce tom rhyme with "out").




>I keep wondering about another Bushism.  Dubya keeps vowing to "rout out"
>the terrorists.  I've interpreted this as a reinterpretation on his part of
>"root" into what for many American speakers is the homophonic "route,"
>which he then assigns his own pronunciation, namely the one that's
>homophonic with "rout."
>
>Is this idiolectal, or is "rout out" a common Texas pronunciaton of "root
>out"?
>
>Peter Mc.
>
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>                               Peter A. McGraw
>                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
>                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu