Another Bushism

[Peter A. McGraw]

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