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We are groof.
Mouse -> Mice
Louse -> Lice
House -> Hice
ox - oxen
box - boxen
equinox - equinoxen
xerox - xeroxen
Die - Dice
Pie - Pice
Tie - Tice
Lie - Lice
Lice <- Louse
Tice <- Touse
Pice <- Pouse
Dice <- Douse
All these lice and misinformation....smh
But also
die - dies
If we're talking about tools.
I am Groof.
Because the English language is known for its rigid consistency of pluralization.
Check out this sweet moof!
I checked out your ma's sweet moof last night 👉😏👉
I'll accept groof if it means we get moof and rooves.
Language is descriptive, so there’s nothing stopping you from using “rooves”, other than what typically results from using words others may not understand. Get enough people over long enough a timeline, and “rooves” becomes the norm, and “roofs” becomes archaic. Just gotta put in the effort.
I can groof to that!
Ew! Perv.
Not really, unless they're booving that groofy moof. Then, they're lost to us, in the land of boxen and meeses.
That sounds exactly like the kind of thing a dirty groofer would say!
MODS BAN THIS ONE RIGHT NOW WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Dialectic morphology is a mofo.
eg. "w00t" is a word. 🤮
🤮
is a word
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rooves and roofs are both accepted as correct though? Roofs being the standard is a pretty new thing, and not the more common one everywhere
I haven't once seen 'rooves' used, let alone be considered as correct.
Wiktionary says it changed in the 17th century, so depending on your definition of "new", sure. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roofs
It doesn't sound weird to me personally, although it does look weird when written out.
It is how I was taught in the 80s, and I went to school in Europe, and the US. So, pretty recently it was quite common.
This dude thinks that the singular of hooves is "hoove"
Groofy.
Okay, but think about this: Groofy.
As soon as I typed that, I changed my mind. No longer defending groof.
One might say it sounds ... goofy.
Would most native speakers actually pronounce "rooves" differently from "roofs"? Is "grooves" already pronounced differently from a hypothetical "groofs"?
f is the voiceless labiodental fricative and v is the voiced labiodental fricative.
Basically for roofs your vocal cords don't vibrate on the final f sound. For rooves your vocal cords vibrate on the final v sound.
I know the difference between f and v, the question is whether it makes a difference in this specific case and if yes, whether most native English speakers actually know that. I'm not a native English speaker and words that end in -ooves aren't that common (when is the last time you said "grooves" or "hooves"?).
English is famously inconsistent about how written letters are pronounced, and there are a lot of accents.
I am a native speaker. The pronunciation difference between those two words, even though one doesn’t actually exist, is only the vibration of vocal cords in the final sound. It’s like belief and believe.
Grooves and hooves are more common words than roofs.
I think I would notice if someone said groofs or hoofs (although that's also a word with a different meaning), but I'm really not sure I'd notice rooves vs roofs.
There is a difference, but it depends on accent. I don't think anyone would notice in speech if you switched though
I think there is a slight difference. Ooves is slightly longer and softer sounding than oofs.
Right now? Any if this vocalized in public puts you at some risk of deportation, NGL.
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the plural of roof should be roof. fite me
Reef
Having Regular English would be nice given some of the silly stuff English has.
Like, really, what's the root of "worse, worst" and "better, best"? "Wo" and "Be"????
Wyrs- and bat- making their way through PIE, Proto-Germanic, and sometimes Dutch.
B-but that's even more irregular!
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