Plural Of Roof British English

The plural can be pronounced ruːfs or ruːvz.

Plural of roof british english.

I ve tried it in english united kingdom and english new zealand i usually use the latter. The vaulted upper boundary of the mouth supported largely by the palatine bones and limited anteriorly by the dental lamina and posteriorly by the uvula and upper part of the fauces. Ruːf word forms. Trick to remember the difference.

I pronouce the plural rooves to rhyme with hooves. I have solar panels on my roof. Bryan garner in his book garner s modern english usage estimates the disparity to be 535 1. The plural form of roof is roofs or rooves.

A small stone cottage with a red slate roof. In other words there is only one correct plural form of roof and it is roofs. See also green roof living roof sunroof. Today the usage of rooves is so low as to approximate zero.

The chart below shows the relative usage of rooves vs. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. I always thought roof becomes rooves the way hoof becomes hooves.

Roofs is the plural of roof in all varieties of english. Rooves is an old secondary form and it still appears occasionally by analogy with other irregular plurals such as hooves but it is not common enough to be considered standard. Roofs in english since 1800. The roof of a building is the covering on top of it that protects the people and things inside from the weather.

We stepped out onto the roof of the building. But what is the correct spelling in british english. But ms word doesn t even recognise rooves and it likes roofs. British english also like a cat on hot bricks very nervous.