Plural Of Hoof And Roof

But hooves woke up in the 20th century and by about 1970 it overtook hoofs in usage and that s where it has stayed.

Plural of hoof and roof.

And this is how you get hoofs. But at the same time there are several exceptions form this rule. Should it become rooves like hooves. The plural of hof is hofas which when pronounced would have sounded like hooves.

Maybe my teachers were wrong. The plural of roof the plural of roof is roofs. Hoof comes from the old english word hof. It wasn t until the last 40 50 years that hooves began to pick up steam.

For a good 250 years hoofs was the primary plural form of hoof analogized with the word roof which has roofs as a plural form. English pluralization can be complicated. Roofs constructed of flat sloped sections are referred to as pitched roofs. And just like roof hoofs was the dominant one.

My dialect is primarily midlands. Hoofs is also a plural form of hoof the horny part of an animal s foot. On the other hand spoof simply adds the plural s suffix to become spoofs. Hoofs is a much older rendering of the plural form of hoof.

The primary job of most roofs is to keep out water. The noun roof adheres to the standard rules for forming the plurals of nouns in english shown in the table below. I say roof like food and hoof lik. For example roof chef and others these do not apply the previous rule but simply add the s normally at the end of the word after f in order to obtain the plural form.

When to use hooves hooves is the newer and now more common plural form of the hoof. In any given region the pronunciation of roof doesn t necessarily follow with the pronunciation of hoof. Hoof for instance becomes hooves in the plural. This is exactly how hooves is obtained as the first plural of the noun.

Not all nouns follow simple rules when transitioning from single to plural form. Thus the plural of goof is goofs not gooves. Just like roof hoof also started with two plural forms hoofs and hooves. Poof and poofs follow the same rule.