Pronounce Roof As Ruff

Roof was one of our spelling words.

Pronounce roof as ruff.

In fact many people do so roof is pronounced ruff in some areas. How to say roof. The alternative pronunciation isn t ruff like a ruffle it has the same vowel as book or put. I would like to say i have lived in south dakota most of my life and i pronounce roof as ruff i m not the only person i know who does this.

How to pronounce roof. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary. Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one. I am from the south.

Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book. People who pronounce the wood roof as ruff are a danger to our society. How to say roof in english. They re both completely acceptable to me.

I m an american and i say ru f and i think that pronunciation actually more common in america than ruf. 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. Those canadians are just wrong.

When i was in grade school we had a teacher from chicago. Canadians sometimes say that a difference between canadian english and american english is that canadians pronounce roof as ru f and americans say ruf. I tend to say rooof with a long oo but i wouldn t even notice if someone used the other pronunciation.