prununcating words wrongly
Router as in IT, yeah. It's a thing that routes traffic between networks. Route is pronounced to rhyme with root (its etymologically Norman french), and does not rhyme with out.

You follow? So router rhymes with shooter not with outer.

But what can you expect really? All IT people have the aspergian male brains with the poor language skills.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:00, 8 replies)

I'd say rather than the IT people
it's the laypeople who get it wrong.

To me, router (rhymes with out) is a power tool.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:02, closed)

yeah
I'll go with that pronunciation for the power tool, because there it means a device which routs, rather than a device which routes.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:11, closed)

When you say "IT people"
do you mean "Americans"? In my experience, all my lot pronounce router correctly whereas "rowter" seems to be the way Americans pronounce it. Your IT people don't seem to be Asperger-riddled male-brains so much as yankophiles.
( Kroney, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:09, closed)

YES
Don't forget Australians though...
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:13, closed)

Perhaps you're right.
fscking merkins. What did they ever contribute to IT besides shitti pronunciation.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:13, closed)

Spiteful AND wrong
A most unattractive combination.
(Super Jet Shoes, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:25, closed)

So is data pronounced day-tah or daa-ta?

Me? Is say the opposite to whoever I am talking to.

And yes, I work in IT and it is a root-er, fnar.
(GingerIrishTosser isn't dead yet., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 20:11, closed)

Cache-ing in?
Also IT-related. Cache rhymes with stash and definitely is not pronounced 'kaysh'. Which makes my blood boil!
(nickynackynoo, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:28, closed)