On the rout to Denmark

I set of for Denmark on Saturday with the long tube journey through London to Heathrow. On the way I got what I would call subtlety attacked by an American woman who didn’t seem to realise that someone on crutches probably has a bad leg and continually kicking them isn’t a good idea.

What was worse was their vicious assault on the English language, but it got me thinking about the inconsistencies of phonetical speech (you can sense the excitement), especially when she said ‘router’ as “rout-errr” as in someone who does a lot of routing (whatever perverted connotation you want to put on that).

Obviously us who speak the language would say “route-r” but can you pronounce ‘r’? Should ‘router’ be spelt ‘routeer’? Obviously not, that would be pronounced “route-ear”. And this blog is stupid, sorry.

In the meantime, this is what I impersonate whenever I have too much beer in a Danish field: