Plural Of Roof British English

The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident.

Plural of roof british english.

I always thought roof becomes rooves the way hoof becomes hooves. Roofs is the plural of roof in all varieties of english. I pronouce the plural rooves to rhyme with hooves. Today the usage of rooves is so low as to approximate zero.

Ruːf word forms. But ms word doesn t even recognise rooves and it likes roofs. British english also like a cat on hot bricks very nervous. But what is the correct spelling in british english.

The roof of a building is the covering on top of it that protects the people and things inside from the weather. In other words there is only one correct plural form of roof and it is roofs. Trick to remember the difference. The chart below shows the relative usage of rooves vs.

See also green roof living roof sunroof. 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. 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.

I have solar panels on my roof. Roofs in english since 1800. Plural roofs pronunciation note. The plural can be pronounced ruːfs or ruːvz.

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. We stepped out onto the roof of the building. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. A small stone cottage with a red slate roof.