|o| e.g., saying "root." When I worked in the Post Office in Queens |o| in the 1970s, |o| on the other hand, the mail carriers universally referred to |o| their delivery |o| routes as "routs." I'd never considered this but in my computer repair days, I had a rout--a set of regular stops. But if on vacation, I would plot a root on the highway map, but I'd stop enrout to sleep.