Roof Pronunciation Ruff

Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one.

Roof pronunciation ruff.

Roof that thing above your head as you sleep that protects you from the weather and flying monkeys. The michigan ites and some other us americans i know pronounce roof as ruff. 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 definition is the cover of a building. Pronunciation of roof with 3 audio pronunciations 25 synonyms 12 meanings 34 sentences and more for roof. 08 31 2020 at 09 02 pm. How to pronounce roof.

How to say roof. Hey go up on the ruff what the fuck is a ruff you ignorant yankee. Roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. Not to be pronounced ruff because only someone from the south with low levels of education would say something that asinine.

They re both completely acceptable to me. Last edited by saibot. Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary.

How to use roof in a sentence. Roof pronounced ruff roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. I am from the south. The alternative pronunciation isn t ruff like a ruffle it has the same vowel as book or put.

The really bizarre one and not limited to michigan is the pronunciation of wash or washington as warsh and warshington. Roof was one of our spelling words. How to say roof in english.