Roof Pronounced Ruff

I tend to say rooof with a long oo but i wouldn t even notice if someone used the other pronunciation.

Roof pronounced ruff.

Roof pronounced ruff roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book. The alternative pronunciation isn t ruff like a ruffle it has the same vowel as book or put. Pronunciation of roof with 3 audio pronunciations 25 synonyms 12 meanings 34 sentences and more for roof.

When i was in grade school we had a teacher from chicago. How to pronounce roof. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary. Hey go up on the ruff what the fuck is a ruff you ignorant yankee.

Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one. Roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. They re both completely acceptable to me. Not to be pronounced ruff because only someone from the south with low levels of education would say something that asinine.

I am from the south. 08 31 2020 at 09 02 pm. Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one. Roof that thing above your head as you sleep that protects you from the weather and flying monkeys.

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