Talk:routing

Is a legitimate pronunciation too? --Abdull 13:53, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

RFC discussion: May 2013–August 2017
Pron.#1, noun#2. cutting a channel in a material such as wood using a router. This should be pronunciation#2 surely, and cutting is a verb, not a noun, which makes it the same as the pron.#2, verb#1 entry. Spinning Spark  18:06, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Forms of the verb and noun route may have either pronunciation (ie, rhyming with root or with out).
 * If a plural of an -ing-form is attestable, then we often have a noun PoS section for the singular, in addition to the verb PoS section. It would be a somewhat tedious exercise of modest benefit to most users to determine which senses of routing have the plural attestable, but I wonder whether routings in the sense from rout is attestable. DCDuring TALK 19:21, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, but the root word for this meaning is rout, not route, which always has the "rowt" pronunciation as far as I am aware. The plural noun probably does exist (cf. turnings, castings etc) and shouldn't be too difficult to find. But the current definition is not worded as a noun. Spinning Spark  23:40, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I've split routing up by etymology rather than pronunciation to make things a bit clearer. —Angr 00:11, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I moved the woodworking noun sense into the second (rout) etymology.
 * The entry for route says that route has two pronunciations for all senses in the US and one pronunciation for all senses in the UK. I think that is right for the US. Is it true that there is only one UK pronunciation? DCDuring TALK 01:55, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes it is. Mglovesfun (talk) 08:31, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * OK. I'd removed the tag. Done? DCDuring TALK 08:35, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * There is still the matter of a noun with a verb definition. I have edited it to A channel cut in a material such as wood with a router or gouge. Spinning Spark  09:35, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Isn't it just a gerund with a gerund definition? "Routing" and "cutting" are the same part of speech. —Angr 19:58, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * We treat it as a noun if it attestably forms a plural. The definition might not be right for said plural. It might be limited to the results of the gerund. DCDuring TALK 20:42, 8 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Looks good now --New WT User Girl (talk) 10:26, 27 August 2017 (UTC)