Plural Of Roof British English

I always thought roof becomes rooves the way hoof becomes hooves.

Plural of roof british english.

The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. Today the usage of rooves is so low as to approximate zero. The plural form of roof is roofs or rooves. I have solar panels on my roof.

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. In other words there is only one correct plural form of roof and it is roofs. British english also like a cat on hot bricks very nervous. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace.

I ve tried it in english united kingdom and english new zealand i usually use the latter. We stepped out onto the roof of the building. The plural can be pronounced ruːfs or ruːvz. Ruːf word forms.

The chart below shows the relative usage of rooves vs. But what is the correct spelling in british english. See also green roof living roof sunroof. But ms word doesn t even recognise rooves and it likes roofs.

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. Plural roofs pronunciation note. I pronouce the plural rooves to rhyme with hooves. Roofs is the plural of roof in all varieties of english.

Plural roofs ˈrüfs ˈru fs also ˈrüvz ˈru vz medical definition of roof 1. Bryan garner in his book garner s modern english usage estimates the disparity to be 535 1. Trick to remember the difference. 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.