Pronouncing Roof Like Ruff

People who pronounce the wood roof as ruff are a danger to our society.

Pronouncing roof like ruff.

The michigan ites and some other us americans i know pronounce roof as ruff. Don t know about nook. 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.

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. Roof pronounced ruff roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one. I now live in california and expected to hear it here after being questioned for years in the east.

I am from the south. And for nice try sake its called soda. He says only about 10 to 15 of americans pronounce roof as rough. Roof was one of our spelling words.

When i was in grade school we had a teacher from chicago. According to grant barret linguist and cohost of the npr radio show way with words it is particularly a regional marker. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary.