Pronouncing Roof Like Ruff

He says only about 10 to 15 of americans pronounce roof as rough.

Pronouncing roof like ruff.

How to say roof. The teacher also said we had only 12 instead of the normal 13 american vowel sounds pronouncing cot and caught the same but my question is whether my pronunciation of root and roof is disappearing. The really bizarre one and not limited to michigan is the pronunciation of wash or washington as warsh and warshington. Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book.

Roof was one of our spelling words. The michigan ites and some other us americans i know pronounce roof as ruff. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary. Don t know about nook.

How to pronounce roof. I now live in california and expected to hear it here after being questioned for years in the east. People who pronounce the wood roof as ruff are a danger to our society. According to grant barret linguist and cohost of the npr radio show way with words it is particularly a regional marker.

When i was in grade school we had a teacher from chicago. Roof pronounced ruff roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. I am from the south.