Roof Pronunciation Map

How to say roof.

Roof pronunciation map.

Western pronunciation of root and roof. Northern us accents tend toward the. Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book. The word roof is pronounced like ooze shoe or sue in 5 6 of the english speaking world.

When you have eliminated the javascript whatever remains must be an empty page. Roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary. You can read all 122 maps here.

How to pronounce roof. Roof definition is the cover of a building. How to use roof in a sentence. Enable javascript to see google maps.

I was born and raised in the west western washington state to be exact. Pronunciation of roof with 3 audio pronunciations 25 synonyms 12 meanings 34 sentences and more for roof. How would you even begin to pronounce mary merrily married. All maps by joshua katz based on a survey by bert vaux.

22 maps showing how different americans pronounce different words hey y all do you want some slaw. The americans for some strange reason made it sound like book look i think pronouncing roof like book makes you sound like a guf. The complete set of katz s maps updated with the results from over 350 000 new survey responses are compiled in the new book speaking american out october 25 from houghton mifflin harcourt. I say root as if it rhymed with foot and pronounce the vowels in roof the same way.

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