route

[Mark A Mandel]

On 6/23/02 04:32, "Prof. R. Sussex" <r.sussex at MAILBOX.UQ.EDU.AU> wrote:

# I am trying to check if the root/raut pronunciation or "route" lines
# up with the Mason-Dixon Line. Is this correct?
# Many thanks

My father, born 1919 in NYC and raised there, used /raUt/ in road names,
and I occasionally use it myself, learned from him. But he may have
picked that up in the Army in WW2.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguist at Large