Ha ha! We always pronounce it like this in our family (when talking to each other) because of the way Rod and others on the show always said it. We always thought it was funny. It's even more fun to pronounce it that way saying "robotics".
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shareJohn Dehner's character's pronunciation of that word in The Lonely struck me as most peculiar.
For the life of me,--and I go back to the Twilight Zone era, watched it when I was growing up--I've never heard that row butt pronunciation in real life, not from teachers, including science teachers; nor just out and about in the world. Not even casually or "humorously". Weird.
We pronounced it "row-bot" back then, just as we do today, as in, from Forbidden Planet, "Robbie, the Row-bit." Hell, just watch Forbidden Planet. You'll hear for yourself how Americans said the word "robot" in the 50s.
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