Plural Of Roof British English

Ruːf word forms.

Plural of roof british english.

Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. The chart below shows the relative usage of rooves vs. In other words there is only one correct plural form of roof and it is roofs. The plural form of roof is roofs or rooves.

British english also like a cat on hot bricks very nervous. We stepped out onto the roof of the building. 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.

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. The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. The plural can be pronounced ruːfs or ruːvz. But ms word doesn t even recognise rooves and it likes roofs.

I have solar panels on my roof. Plural roofs pronunciation note. Today the usage of rooves is so low as to approximate zero. I ve tried it in english united kingdom and english new zealand i usually use the latter.

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. But what is the correct spelling in british english.

See also green roof living roof sunroof. Plural roofs ˈrüfs ˈru fs also ˈrüvz ˈru vz medical definition of roof 1. I always thought roof becomes rooves the way hoof becomes hooves. Roofs in english since 1800.