{"id":406,"date":"2012-05-28T12:02:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T02:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2013-12-20T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T07:26:20","slug":"root-rout-route-which-to-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/05\/root-rout-route-which-to-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Root, Rout, Route &#8211; which to take?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/compass_mapLR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4122\" title=\"compass_mapLR\" alt=\"Compass on a map\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/compass_mapLR-150x122.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a>This group of words will be more or\u00a0less confusing depending on where you live; in Australia, root and route sound quite different so we get confused more by American TV and movies than in common speech.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Root<\/span><\/strong> [noun]: part of a plant that anchors it and sources nutrients for the plant; an anchoring structure or element such as the part of a hair under the skin and the underlying cause of an issue<br \/>\n<em>Carrots and parsnips are both root vegetables.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It is the love of money, rather than money, that is the root of many problems.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Rout<\/span><\/strong> [noun]: an obvious defeat or unruly withdrawal of troops form a battle; a disorganised crowd, often rioting<br \/>\n<em>The General was not sympathetic to his officers after the rout last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Route<\/span><\/strong> [noun]: a path or means of travel; a designated area or path for a salesperson or franchise; the means of entry (generally used in medical situations)<br \/>\n<em>The cubs carefully planned their route with a compass and map.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sneezing is a common route of transmission for the flu virus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To tell root and rout apart, remember that a r<strong>out<\/strong> is about the soldiers getting <strong>out<\/strong> of a loosing battle.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I should also mention that there is another (not so family friendly) meaning of the word &#8216;root&#8217; in Australia &#8211; while it may be slang, it is well known and has caused many a laugh when international visitors use the word unwisely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This group of words will be more or\u00a0less confusing depending on where you live; in Australia, root and route sound quite different so we get confused more by American TV and movies than in common speech. Root [noun]: part of a plant that anchors it and sources nutrients for the plant; an anchoring structure or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[273,765,766,767],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-meanings","tag-root","tag-rout","tag-route"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6356,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}