Roof Pronunciation Ruff

Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book.

Roof pronunciation ruff.

Don t know about nook. Pronunciation of roof with 3 audio pronunciations 25 synonyms 12 meanings 34 sentences and more for roof. How to say roof in english. Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one.

Hey go up on the ruff what the fuck is a ruff you ignorant yankee. I tend to say rooof with a long oo but i wouldn t even notice if someone used the other pronunciation. The really bizarre one and not limited to michigan is the pronunciation of wash or washington as warsh and warshington. Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book.

When i was in grade school we had a teacher from chicago. Roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary. The michigan ites and some other us americans i know pronounce roof as ruff.

Roof that thing above your head as you sleep that protects you from the weather and flying monkeys. Last edited by saibot. Roof pronounced ruff roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. Roof definition is the cover of a building.

How to pronounce roof. How to use roof in a sentence. How to say roof. The alternative pronunciation isn t ruff like a ruffle it has the same vowel as book or put.

Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one. Not to be pronounced ruff because only someone from the south with low levels of education would say something that asinine. Roof was one of our spelling words.