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minus-squareJiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agorooves and roofs are both accepted as correct though? Roofs being the standard is a pretty new thing, and not the more common one everywhere
minus-squareSereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoI haven’t once seen ‘rooves’ used, let alone be considered as correct.
minus-squareMimicJar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoWiktionary says it changed in the 17th century, so depending on your definition of “new”, sure. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roofs It doesn’t sound weird to me personally, although it does look weird when written out.
minus-squareJiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoIt is how I was taught in the 80s, and I went to school in Europe, and the US. So, pretty recently it was quite common.
rooves and roofs are both accepted as correct though? Roofs being the standard is a pretty new thing, and not the more common one everywhere
I haven’t once seen ‘rooves’ used, let alone be considered as correct.
Wiktionary says it changed in the 17th century, so depending on your definition of “new”, sure. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roofs
It doesn’t sound weird to me personally, although it does look weird when written out.
It is how I was taught in the 80s, and I went to school in Europe, and the US. So, pretty recently it was quite common.