Rooves or roofs
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Plural of words. Is it rooves or roofs Is it Hooves or hoofs Is it Dwarves or dwarfs That first one ''rooves'' does sound crazy to me. |
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| roofs, hooves, dwarves |
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| Actually, I'd opt for "hooves" and "dwarves," but "hoofs" and "dwarfs" are equally acceptable. The dictionary has no entries for "rooves," nor have I ever seen it used as the plural for "roof." People will usually say "rooftops" or "roofs." However, one will often hear "roofs" pronounced like "rooves." |
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| I am a billionaire. |
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Hm, I say the following: dwarf - dwarves wife - wives roof - rooves life - lives hoof - hooves |
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It seems that according to wordreference.com, I say it right ("rooves") but it is spelt as "roofs." http://www.wordreference.com/english/definition.asp?en=roof |
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| What is the plural of poof then? |
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| Poof is a contraction of "poofter", an informal word. Slightly old fashioned or rather rude, I would say, since the correct thing would now be "gay". Being a contraction if would have to be "poofs". Hope you don't have a contraction yourself. |
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| Ok, whatbout yoof? |
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| 355 "yoofs" and 13 "yooves" in my searcher. That amounts to 96,47% Internet usage of the first. |
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| Do you always do what the Internet tells you? |
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| I spoke of "usage" and that was a quick way of checking. Please tell me what "yoof" exactly means. Not in my Collins Cobuild nor in my everyday speech. Thanks. |
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| It's media slang for youth as in "youth culture". It is used ironically. |
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Is the plural of father-in-law ''father-in-laws'' or ''fathers-in-law''.\ What about the plural of ''son-of-a-gun''. |
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It's "fathers-in-law" and I'd say "sons-of-guns" just like "governors general" and "sons-of-bitches". dwarf - dwarves wife - wives roof - roofs (but pronounced /ru:vz/) life - lives hoof - hooves poof - poofs proof -proofs ''Rooves'' doesn't sound crazy: that's the way it's pronounced. It's just misspelt. |