Pronouncing Roof Like Ruff

The michigan ites and some other us americans i know pronounce roof as ruff.

Pronouncing roof like ruff.

When i was in grade school we had a teacher from chicago. People who pronounce the wood roof as ruff are a danger to our society. How to pronounce roof. How to say roof.

Roof was one of our spelling words. He says only about 10 to 15 of americans pronounce roof as rough. Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary.

Don t know about nook. According to grant barret linguist and cohost of the npr radio show way with words it is particularly a regional marker. In a particular episode he says the difference is only caused by how some people make tense vowels as lax vowels. The really bizarre one and not limited to michigan is the pronunciation of wash or washington as warsh and warshington.

I am from the south. 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. And for nice try sake its called soda.