[ih] gateway vs. router

[Brian E Carpenter]

When I first taught a networking course in NZ, I was *strongly* advised to forget my British roots and pronounce "router" as "rowter" (ˈrau̇-tər), because "root" (ˈrüt) has a very different slang connotation in eng-nz and eng-au, that doesn't exist in eng-us and eng-gb, isn't at all polite, and will amuse many undergraduates.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/router seems a bit confused.

But of course "gateway" is not forgotten, especially in BGP-4.

Regards
    Brian Carpenter

On 23-Apr-24 06:51, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
> The Brits never could get use to the idea that we were just ‘improving’ the language.  ;-)
> 
>> On Apr 22, 2024, at 11:37, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>>
>>> Because, in the 1980s, we were still in a multi-protocol world, people
>>> were building "gateways" of the second variety.  And they were
>>> distinct from "ships-in-the-night" routers (which were multiprotocol
>>> but didn't do conversion).
>>
>> Gateways was also an unsatisfying choice because it did not afford this international community an opportunity to debate pronunciation.
>>
>> d/
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