Plural Of Hoof And Roof

Maybe my teachers were wrong.

Plural of hoof and roof.

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. Just like roof hoof also started with two plural forms hoofs and hooves. Hoof for instance becomes hooves in the plural. The plural of roof the plural of roof is roofs.

But at the same time there are several exceptions form this rule. When to use hooves hooves is the newer and now more common plural form of the hoof. And the plural forms roofs and hooves don t necessarily follow the singulars. On the other hand spoof simply adds the plural s suffix to become spoofs.

English pluralization can be complicated. And this is how you get hoofs. 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. The noun roof adheres to the standard rules for forming the plurals of nouns in english shown in the table below.

Poof and poofs follow the same rule. This is exactly how hooves is obtained as the first plural of the noun. When at school i was taught that the plural of roof is rooves and the plural of hoof is hooves. I say roof like food and hoof lik.

Not all nouns follow simple rules when transitioning from single to plural form. Hoofs is a much older rendering of the plural form of hoof. My dialect is primarily midlands. Hoof comes from the old english word hof.

Thus the plural of goof is goofs not gooves. In any given region the pronunciation of roof doesn t necessarily follow with the pronunciation of hoof. So the best we can say is that the plural form of roof is variable where roofs is the preferred plural in many style manuals although i can see. The primary job of most roofs is to keep out water.

Roofs constructed of flat sloped sections are referred to as pitched roofs. And just like roof hoofs was the dominant one. Hoofs is also a plural form of hoof the horny part of an animal s foot. The plural of hof is hofas which when pronounced would have sounded like hooves.