Another Bushism

[Peter A. McGraw]

I guess the "router" theory provides an alternate, and simpler, explanation
of Bush's form, but it leaves the question of whether "rout out" is
regional.  To the best of my recollection, I've never heard anyone else use
it.

Peter Mc.

--On Monday, March 4, 2002 2:07 PM -0500 "Dennis R. Preston"
<preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU> wrote:

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



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu