ADS-L Digest - 21 May 2008 to 22 May 2008 (#2008-144)

[Tom Zurinskas]

Actually, there's not a single instance in my truespel database where tradstreeng "oo" is pronounced as long o, or "oh" ~oe.

Interestingly, I find in my analysis of English (USA), that tradstreeng "oo" is more often pronounce as in "look" (~look) and "wood" (~wood) than any other sound, including long u as in "food" ~fued, and "soon", ~suen.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.





> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 09:02:23 -0400
> From: hwgray at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 21 May 2008 to 22 May 2008 (#2008-144)
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> Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 21 May 2008 to 22 May 2008 (#2008-144)
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> Good news, if true!
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> Back in the 'Forties, I was taught 'roof, roofs" and "hoof, hooves." I
> use "oo" as in "ooh!". But the pronunciation with "oo" as in "ccok"
> is also fine with me.
>
> -Wilson
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> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Your Name  wrote:
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>> On May 22, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>> "The tornado ripped _rooves_ off buildings."
>>>
>>> "_Rooves_" appears to be becoming more and more common.
>>
>> I personally haven't heard "rooves" since probably the late 1960's, when we
>> were taught that form in grade school. I remember deciding for myself in
>> high school that "roofs" sounded better and made more sense, and that I'd
>> use it until someone told me to stop (probably via a teacher marking it wrong
>> on a paper, or by that which has more authority: a peer making fun of me
>> for
>> saying it). Neither ever happened, so I've been saying "roofs" ever since
>> - and so has everyone else I know. I literally have not heard or read that
>> term
>> from then till tonight, upon reading the above. So it seems to me that
>> it's
>> becoming less common, not more.
>>
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