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Mispronunciation Of The Word Route by aris(op): 3:42pm On Apr 03, 2018
Recently I have heard people mispronounce the word ROUTE as ROUT. This is fast gaining ground even among OAPs and other presenters.
This has got me thinking...do sound of words suddenly change, or do Nigerians just like creating sounds as it suits them.
Nairalanders please help me here...I no know weda na me dey make mistake:
what is the right pronunciation of the word ROUTE

route
/ruːt/


rout
raʊt/

From the above these are different words with completely different sounds. How Nigerians twisted and mixed them up am yet to find out.
I know say na from the sound of the word ROUTER /ˈraʊtə/,dem form this one. Remove the last 'R' and u are der.
Re: Mispronunciation Of The Word Route by Obainoneandonly(m): 9:12pm On Apr 03, 2018
Americans do call it raut.especially in their movies
Re: Mispronunciation Of The Word Route by aris(op): 10:31pm On Apr 03, 2018
Lol and as copycats we no verify. Are u sure dey are referring to route or rout
Obainoneandonly:
Americans do call it raut.especially in their movies
Re: Mispronunciation Of The Word Route by Obainoneandonly(m): 12:56pm On Apr 04, 2018
aris:
Lol and as copycats we no verify. Are u sure dey are referring to route or rout
its route they are referring to.just as they call IRAN AIRAN,IRAQ AIRAQ
Re: Mispronunciation Of The Word Route by Elzak(m): 4:40pm On Apr 04, 2018
/ru:t/ is a British pronunciation while /raut/ is an American pronunciation......... both are grammaticality correct and mean the same thing. But as Nigerians colonized by the British we should be using the former
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