Roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it.
Pronounce roof as ruff.
How to say roof.
People who pronounce the wood roof as ruff are a danger to our society.
Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one.
Pronunciation of roof with 3 audio pronunciations 25 synonyms 12 meanings 34 sentences and more for roof.
How to pronounce roof.
I tend to say rooof with a long oo but i wouldn t even notice if someone used the other pronunciation.
I m an american and i say ru f and i think that pronunciation actually more common in america than ruf.
In fact many people do so roof is pronounced ruff in some areas.
Those canadians are just wrong.
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.
Roof pronounced ruff roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it.
Canadians sometimes say that a difference between canadian english and american english is that canadians pronounce roof as ru f and americans say ruf.
Roof was one of our spelling words.
I am from the south.
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 say roof in english.
Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one.