Plural Of Hoof And Roof

Thus the plural of goof is goofs not gooves.

Plural of hoof and roof.

And this is how you get hoofs. And the plural forms roofs and hooves don t necessarily follow the singulars. It wasn t until the last 40 50 years that hooves began to pick up steam. Hoofs is a much older rendering of the plural form of hoof.

English pluralization can be complicated. In any given region the pronunciation of roof doesn t necessarily follow with the pronunciation of hoof. 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. Poof and poofs follow the same rule.

Hoof comes from the old english word hof. Maybe my teachers were wrong. Roofs constructed of flat sloped sections are referred to as pitched roofs. The plural of roof the plural of roof is roofs.

And just like roof hoofs was the dominant one. Hoof for instance becomes hooves in the plural. I say roof like food and hoof lik. But at the same time there are several exceptions form this rule.

When at school i was taught that the plural of roof is rooves and the plural of hoof is hooves. Not all nouns follow simple rules when transitioning from single to plural form. When to use hooves hooves is the newer and now more common plural form of the hoof. Hoofs is also a plural form of hoof the horny part of an animal s foot.

My dialect is primarily midlands. This is exactly how hooves is obtained as the first plural of the noun. On the other hand spoof simply adds the plural s suffix to become spoofs. The plural of hof is hofas which when pronounced would have sounded like hooves.

But hooves woke up in the 20th century and by about 1970 it overtook hoofs in usage and that s where it has stayed. 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. Should it become rooves like hooves. The primary job of most roofs is to keep out water.