I say root and rowter.

What always gets me is when a TV or movie character says he's from LAN-caster, Pennsylvania. That's the way Lancaster, Calif. is pronounced, so I'm not surprised by Hollywood actors who don't know that its LANG-c'ster, Pa. But it still irks me.

"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution" - Daniel Webster