Pronouncing Roof Like Ruff

When i was in grade school we had a teacher from chicago.

Pronouncing roof like ruff.

Don t know about nook. And for nice try sake its called soda. He says only about 10 to 15 of americans pronounce roof as rough. The michigan ites and some other us americans i know pronounce roof as ruff.

I now live in california and expected to hear it here after being questioned for years in the east. 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. People who pronounce the wood roof as ruff are a danger to our society. I am from the south.

Roof was one of our spelling words. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary. Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one. Roof pronounced ruff roof as ruff is rare although i don t doubt that there are some who say it.

How to pronounce roof. In a particular episode he says the difference is only caused by how some people make tense vowels as lax vowels. According to grant barret linguist and cohost of the npr radio show way with words it is particularly a regional marker.