Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend
Schoolbooks are often wrong. I've always heard it as ROW BOT' or less often as ROW' BUTT.


Recently I heard an audio file on the onion website in which the word was consistently pronounced ROE BIT. The OED has only ({sm}r{schwa}{shtu}b{rfa}t) and no mention of an alternate pronunciation with a silent t. Nor does Merriam-Webster and googling for 'robot pronunciation silent t' turns up only this thread as mentioning the existence of such a variant.