Re: British pronunciation of "Jag-you-er" sounds equally silly to we across the Pond
"While I guess a firewall might conceivably rout packets, a router, well, routes them…"
Probably because over here, "route" -- either noun or verb -- can be pronounced "root" or "rout". I would have guessed that it was related to regional dialects, but that does not appear to be the case:
http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_26.html
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