"To learn by road." Is this an expression used by many people?

Question

"To learn by road."

Is it only used in one dialect/variety of English; American, Scottish, Br English or another?

Is it used only by middle aged men?

Does it mean what I think it means? (To learn something by doing it.)

Aha.. I see.. I am idioth. Thanks people! A classmate asked, and I couldn't find it in the dictionary at "road". Guess I know why x__x

Answer 1

Your use (and spelling) is incorrect. The correct phrase is, "To learn by rote." (not "road").

Princeton's WordNet says that "rote" is defined as "memorization through repetition." If you repeat something often enough that you can do it successfully by having memorized the steps, you have "learned by rote" to do it.

Answer 2

I think it is "Rote"
"by rote, from memory, without thought of the meaning; in a mechanical way: to learn a language by rote. "

Answer 3

I think you mean to learn by ROTE, which means to momorize something, word for word. It can be used by everyone who speaks English.

Answer 4

> Is this an expression used by many people?

I hope not, as the correct expression is "To learn by rote".

Answer 5

i think the term you MEAN is ROTE. yes .. by doing over and over and over and over and ....

kind of like cut and paste.

Answer 6

i dont use it i interpret it to mean learning by experience i agrree with ur interpretation also