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Undertoad · 11-19-2005, 06:10 PM

I had a teacher who pronounced the word "root" as if it rhymed with "soot", and not "boot".

Unfortunately he was a Unix teacher and so he was constantly saying it, because that's the name of the administrative user under Unix.

11-19-2005, 06:10 PM	#8
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I had a teacher who pronounced the word "root" as if it rhymed with "soot", and not "boot". Unfortunately he was a Unix teacher and so he was constantly saying it, because that's the name of the administrative user under Unix.