Plural Of Hoof And Roof

Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days.

Plural of hoof and roof.

Australian children right up to the 1980s for example were brought up with the word. Hooves is the plural form of hoof the horny part of an animal s foot especially a horse. That said hoof and roof totally do have the same origin as do most english words that do the f to v thing. Even wimbledon don t play by these tactics any more henrik larsson sends a low cross fizzing into the bulgaria box but predrag pazhin does well to hoof the ball over his own bar and out for a corner from which nothing comes.

Again though differing adaptation and other factors can come into play. The plural of hof is hofas which when pronounced would have sounded like hooves. And yet i haven t seen it spelt like that for ages. Now hoof is one of the few words in english that officially accepts both plural forms.

And this is how you get hoofs. The days when you could just hoof the ball up to a striker have long since gone. Hoof comes from the old english word hof. It wasn t until the last 40 50 years that hooves began to pick up steam.

The plural of roof is roofs or rooves. Just like roof hoof also started with two plural forms hoofs and hooves. 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. But hooves woke up in the 20th century and by about 1970 it overtook hoofs in usage and that s where it has stayed.

I have actually seen roofs being used in lots of children s books lately and i m wondering whether it s changed. Out of curiosity though would you list the plural of proof like in the case of writing a mathematic proof as prooves.