Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one.
Roof pronounced ruff.
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The alternative pronunciation isn t ruff like a ruffle it has the same vowel as book or put.
I tend to say rooof with a long oo but i wouldn t even notice if someone used the other pronunciation.
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Roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it.
How to say roof.
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I am from the south.
They re both completely acceptable to me.
How to pronounce roof.
Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one.
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.
08 31 2020 at 09 02 pm.
Roof was one of our spelling words.
Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book.
Hey go up on the ruff what the fuck is a ruff you ignorant yankee.
Not to be pronounced ruff because only someone from the south with low levels of education would say something that asinine.