[Mears]

PEE-CAN here in MA .

We also pronounce “route” as ROOT.

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[Exit148]

And “sure” is pronounced “shu-ah”.

How about ‘aunt’ and ‘bath’?

[gnarledmaw]

Ive noticed locally we tend to use pronounce the word differently to suggest something slightly different. For example, a "route' (like "cow") is the thing you plan before hand on a map, a "route" (like "root") is the path you actually took to get somewhere. That means paperboys and highway plans have a "cow" sound, when I got lost in the blizzard and found my way to your house anyway, I have a "root" sound.

How is Caribbean pronounced? Well, if Im going on a cruise ship or talking about aquatic wildlife, then thats something like care-rih-BE-an, the islands, those are ca-RIH-be-uhn.

[CJinVA]

Root password on super-computer at work was......route66