Plural Of Roof British English

The plural form of roof is roofs or rooves.

Plural of roof british english.

The plural can be pronounced ruːfs or ruːvz. But what is the correct spelling in british english. Bryan garner in his book garner s modern english usage estimates the disparity to be 535 1. Today the usage of rooves is so low as to approximate zero.

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. Roofs is the plural of roof in all varieties of english. I ve tried it in english united kingdom and english new zealand i usually use the latter.

In other words there is only one correct plural form of roof and it is roofs. See also green roof living roof sunroof. I always thought roof becomes rooves the way hoof becomes hooves. Plural roofs ˈrüfs ˈru fs also ˈrüvz ˈru vz medical definition of roof 1.

I have solar panels on my roof. We stepped out onto the roof of the building. I pronouce the plural rooves to rhyme with hooves. British english also like a cat on hot bricks very nervous.

The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. 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. A small stone cottage with a red slate roof. Plural roofs pronunciation note.

The roof of a building is the covering on top of it that protects the people and things inside from the weather. Trick to remember the difference. Roofs in english since 1800. Ruːf word forms.