Re: Tram Announcements: another Victorian election conspiracy theory

["Bradley Torr" <btorr@bigpond.nospam.com>]

Nev.. <idiotxxx@mindless.com> wrote in article
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> -> I thought that was the Brittish way.  I usually say and hear it
pronounced
> -> "root"

There was a thread about this on misc.transport.road some weeks ago;
different parts of the US pronounce it differently - I think the MidWest
pronounced it 'rowt' whereas the eastern seaboard pronounces it 'root'.


> I think the American pronunciation "rowt" has been adopted by lots of 
> people to avoid the blushes and giggles that saying the word "root" 
> invariably produces, 

Nope, the word 'root' to describe sexual intercourse doesn't have that
meaning in the United States.

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