![]() ![]() Roofs looks more like the exception than the rule. A few grass types used in Uganda include Obukuli from. Chambers has this: roof noun ( roofs or common in spoken English, but non-standard in writing rooves) In addition to the previous examples, we have leaf/leaves, knife/knives, wife/wives. And yet, I havent seen it spelt like that for ages. And instead of accepting that and publicly admitting that he got it wrong, he is still trying to snipe at people who are telling the truth because it isn’t the truth he wants to hear. These rooves are put up using dry vegetation like grass, straw, water reed, palm branches, or papyrus. When I was young (a long time ago), the plural of roof was rooves. The standard/traditional rule for words ending in f the one I grew up with, of course is that we substitute a v for the f and. The same holds true for an increasing number of words ending in f. However, if it should turn out that Jimbo and Sean Sweeney are one and the same, it would demonstrate beautifully that he is incapable of providing any defence for Cassidy or his ideas, because if all he can do is question my non-American spelling of rooves, then it’s quite obvious that he can’t find even a tiny shred of evidence that Cassidy got it right about anything. Explanation: In the U.S., roofs is the standard plural of roof elsewhere rooves is fairly common but becoming less so. I am sure there are hundreds of thousands of people whose twin obsessions are defending Daniel Cassidy’s reputation and taking the New York Citi Bike scheme to task for the siting of its ranks in Soho. I am not saying that Jimbo is a sockpuppet for Sean Sweeney, the childish, tiresome little numpty who keeps posting here and elsewhere in defence of Daniel Cassidy’s indefensible book without clarifying what his relationship with Cassidy was. However, I suspect that Jimbo is not really that concerned with my English spelling. I make mistakes and when I do, I admit them. I use English less than half the time and I have never claimed to be omniscient. And even if rooves were incorrect, it wouldn’t bother me greatly. Roofs may be the most common spelling but it’s not the only version. But hooves woke up in the 20th century and by about 1970, it overtook hoofs in usage, and that's where it has stayed. And just like roof, hoofs WAS the dominant one. (It’s also used a lot in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, judging by the comments.) A: Just like roof, hoof also started with two plural forms hoofs and hooves. A search for phrases like ‘thatched rooves’ or ‘tiled rooves’ on Google turns up lots of perfectly well-written material from outside the States and the OED also sanctions it, saying that it is an acceptable variant in the UK. He sent me a couple of links to ‘prove’ this, though apparently he didn’t read them very carefully, as the comments on them confirm that outside of the States, rooves is an acceptable and quite common spelling among educated people. ![]() Jimbo suggested that I am less educated than I claim to be because, apparently, I can’t spell the plural of roof.Īccording to Jimbo, the plural of roof is roofs, always and in every dialect of English. Jimbo had nothing to say about the revelations that Cassidy had no degrees or the huge volume of evidence presented here that his book is fictional nonsense. I recently received a rather offensive message from someone called Jimbo. ![]()
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