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.

He says only about 10 to 15 of americans pronounce roof as rough. The really bizarre one and not limited to michigan is the pronunciation of wash or washington as warsh and warshington. In a particular episode he says the difference is only caused by how some people make tense vowels as lax vowels. How to say roof.

Roof pronounced ruff roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it. And for nice try sake its called soda. Don t know about nook. Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book.

When i was in grade school we had a teacher from chicago. I now live in california and expected to hear it here after being questioned for years in the east. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary. 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. Roof was one of our spelling words. How to pronounce roof.