Pronouncing Roof Like Ruff

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.

Pronouncing roof like ruff.

I am from the south. Roof pronounced ruff roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. The really bizarre one and not limited to michigan is the pronunciation of wash or washington as warsh and warshington. People who pronounce the wood roof as ruff are a danger to our society.

Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one. Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book. 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.

Roof was one of our spelling words. Don t know about nook. The michigan ites and some other us americans i know pronounce roof as ruff. How to say roof.

He says only about 10 to 15 of americans pronounce roof as rough. In a particular episode he says the difference is only caused by how some people make tense vowels as lax vowels. And for nice try sake its called soda.