Talk:roof

What is the plural of roof?

 * Roofs is overwhelmingly more common on the internet; rooves occurs sometimes, often just in discussions saying that it is incorrect (though roofs may be pronounced as rooves).


 * I thought it might be rooves in Australian (that's certainly how I pronounce it) but even here, on the Macquarienet site and googling Australian sites, roofs is far more frequent. --Singkong2005 &middot; talk 07:17, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, rooves is wrong. I've removed it. 15:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Wrong or not - it exists. I have replaced it, but added a note that it is less common and considered incorrect.--Dmol 22:00, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

structure or location
Suggest splitting the definition per the usage note. DAVilla 02:17, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Location sense
Would it be worth mentioning that the location sense is used (almost exclusively, as far as I can tell) to refer to flat rooftops that allow easy access, via a door for example? It took me some time to realise this is what the page is trying to convey, but shows like Friends and others set in cities, use it frequently. Might help make things clearer for us country folk. CrisH (talk) 13:51, 19 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Well, it says "the top external level of a building". The fact that it's a level suggests that it's flat; the fact that people don't tend to go out walking on sloping roofs is IMO fairly easy to see a reason for! Perhaps more citations will make it extra clear. Equinox ◑ 00:01, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Possible missing noun sense
Chambers 1908 has "a vault or arch, or the inner side of it". Possibly already covered. Equinox ◑ 23:57, 22 July 2019 (UTC)