Nov 28, 2016 · The French is en route pour Paris. The expression came into English around 1800, when the word-for-word translation, en route for Paris, started out slightly more popular …

Mar 16, 2016 · On route is a less common variant of the original expression en route: The French loan phrase en route, pronounced on root, means (1) on or along the way, or (2) on the road. It …

My primary language being French, I can clearly understand what en route means ("on its way"). I can't see, however, why English-speaking people would use this French expression. Why is it …

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5 In the UK, route is pronounced /ru:t/, rhyming with root. On the other hand, the pronunciation /raʊt/, rhyming with shout, is rout, meaning, among many other things, various kinds of …

Oct 31, 2022 · How do you show a foreign term followed by its translation? Is the foreign term placed in quotation marks with its translation italicized or the other way around? Style guides …

Jan 25, 2019 · Idiomatically, if I wanted to tell someone I was currently going to the store, I wouldn't use the verb "to go". So I might say "I'm en route to the store". Idiomatically, if I …

Jan 26, 2012 · What is the correct pronunciation of the word “route”? I always thought that the word route should be pronounced as ru:t (my english dictionary also says that).

Aug 12, 2012 · The term "summit" is generally only used for a mountain peak with some significant amount of topographic prominence (height above the lowest point en route to the …

Aug 27, 2024 · My guess would be that the en makes it look like a French expression, so some people pronounce it as such (even though caul is fully English). But collocations with en are in …