Re: Tram Announcements: another Victorian election conspiracy theory

["Jeff Kurland" <kurlandj@mediaone.net>]

John Dennis <jdennis@acslink.net.au> wrote in message
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> On my trip along St Kilda Road and back last Thursday, I only heard
> one announcement.  That said that due to an abandoned car at an
> intersection on Malvern Road trams were delayed.  The interesting
> thing (to my mind) was the preamble, which was "to all passengers on
> route 70" with route pronounced in the American way - rowt.

I thought that was the Brittish way.  I usually say and hear it pronounced
"root"

JBK in the USA