Pronouncing Roof Like Ruff

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

Pronouncing roof like ruff.

The really bizarre one and not limited to michigan is the pronunciation of wash or washington as warsh and warshington. According to grant barret linguist and cohost of the npr radio show way with words it is particularly a regional marker. How to pronounce roof. In a particular episode he says the difference is only caused by how some people make tense vowels as lax vowels.

I am from the south. And for nice try sake its called soda. People who pronounce the wood roof as ruff are a danger to our society. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary.

Don t know about nook. How to say roof. Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book. I now live in california and expected to hear it here after being questioned for years in the east.

Roof pronounced ruff roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. When i was in grade school we had a teacher from chicago. Roof was one of our spelling words.