route

[Alice Faber]

Prof. R. Sussex wrote:
>I am trying to check if the root/raut pronunciation or "route" lines
>up with the Mason-Dixon Line. Is this correct?

You couldn't prove it by me. I grew up in the  1960's in the New York City
suburbs (well north of the Mason-Dixon line), and I grew up absolutely
confused as to which pronunciation was "right". It wasn't like "soda" vs
"pop", where I knew both pronunciations but was sure that "soda" was right
and "pop" was an interloper. It was more like "dived" vs "dove", where I
knew both pronunciations and was so confused that I resorted to
circumlocution to avoid committing myself to one or the other.


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