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I don't (native Texan). I almost always pronounce it as "rout"...the noteable exception being when I might happen to mention "root" 66 in an historical context! LOL
That is to say, telling someone, when giving directions, to "take this (rout) to get (wherever). Or, in reference to something local and I am in the car with the other person, "ok, take this "rout" at the next cut-off. Interesting question as to how we all do it...
How bout mom or dad, I pronounce it Mum, and Dud, im from New England.
How bout mom or dad, I pronounce it Mum, and Dud, im from New England.
This too is an interesting one in terms of not only regional pronunciation, but the idiom itself.
By that I mean that it is my experience that most Southerners -- at least in my generation, and still even today to some extent -- will call their parents, when referring to them directly and in a close family context, as "momma" and "daddy".
To a non-Southerner, I realize that might sound a little "childish"...but I am not apologizing! LOL I might use the term "mom" or "dad" (or mother and father) when referring to them in the third-person sense in the realm of writing or such, but still today, I usually call my mother "momma" and my father "daddy" when I am addressing them directly. And I am 53 freaking years old! LOL
But anyway, to answer your question? When I use "mom" verbally, I pronounce it -- phonetically -- with that drawn out drawl typical of the Southern American English. That is, something like "mahm" (short "a" sound). And "dad" as "da'yd" (very slight injection of "y").
No wonder we Southerners are always considered the red-headed step children of American English! LOL But again, I am not apologizing. I like it, by gawd and high cotton!
I pronouce cot/caught and dawn/Don slightly differently. I understand people in most of California (especially SoCal) have merged them, but the Bay Area has some Eastern/Northern remnant in its speech pattern that keeps it from happening here.
For those of you who are confused about how cot/caught sound when they aren't pronounced the same, here's a video. In the video he pronounces five vowels--an "ooh" like sound, then an "oh" like sound, then the vowel in "caught," and then the vowel in "cot," then an "ah" sound.
I grew up in NYC, and I pronounce those words differently.
It annoys me when people pronounce "pin" and "pen" the same.
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