Plural Of Roof British English

The plural form of roof is roofs or rooves.

Plural of roof british english.

I always thought roof becomes rooves the way hoof becomes hooves. 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. Bryan garner in his book garner s modern english usage estimates the disparity to be 535 1. Plural roofs pronunciation note.

Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. 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. Trick to remember the difference. Plural roofs ˈrüfs ˈru fs also ˈrüvz ˈru vz medical definition of roof 1.

Roofs is the plural of roof in all varieties of english. See also green roof living roof sunroof. But what is the correct spelling in british english. The chart below shows the relative usage of rooves vs.

The plural can be pronounced ruːfs or ruːvz. Roofs in english since 1800. We stepped out onto the roof of the building. Another word for opposite of meaning of rhymes with sentences with find word forms translate from english translate to english words with friends scrabble crossword codeword words starting with words ending with words containing exactly words containing letters pronounce find.

The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. I have solar panels on my roof. I pronouce the plural rooves to rhyme with hooves. But ms word doesn t even recognise rooves and it likes roofs.

Ruːf word forms. British english also like a cat on hot bricks very nervous. The roof of a building is the covering on top of it that protects the people and things inside from the weather. A small stone cottage with a red slate roof.