Show TAKE MY WORD FOR IT By Frank Colby is ROUTE ROUT OR ROOT Is It wrong to pronounce route as rou route Is la root the only proper pronunciation 1 To answer these two questions questions questions ques ques- which turn up constantly in my man mall let us consider briefly the hist history ry or of the word route It began as the Latin which came to have these meanings meanings mean mean- ings lags a la defeat a flying mass of broken and disorganized troops hence a fragment of an army or ort t troop op hence a way broken or orcut orcut orcut cut by fleeIng troops through a forest hence a way traveled entered French with the spellIng changed to route and with the meaning a way or course traveled in going from one place to another The French pronunciation is root Route entered enter d English with its spelling and meaning un un- changed A little later a curious thing occurred route again entered entered entered en en- English dropped the e becoming rout and turned Itself it itself itself it- it self into a noun meaning act of defeating and breaking up and a verb meaning to breakup break breakup up and put to flight The word route in American usage ge is pronounced either rout or root and practically all American dictionaries list both pronunciations Do you say He likes likes' to hear MY singing or He likes to hear ME singing Mr Colby's Possessive Pronouns Pronouns Pronouns Pro Pro- leaflet C 16 nouns explains the use of these pronouns in m a simple way To obtain a a. copy send In coin and a stamped self ad dressed envelope to him c care care re of The Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram Tribune Home Service bureau Salt Lake ake City 10 Ut Utah |