Don t know about nook.
Pronouncing roof like ruff.
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.
How to say roof.
How to pronounce roof.
People who pronounce the wood roof as ruff are a danger to our society.
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.
Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary.
When i was in grade school we had a teacher from chicago.
Northern us accents tend toward the long foodish one southern accents tend toward the bookish one.
Mostly the distinction is between the two different double o pronunciations the long oo in food or the short oo in book.
I am from the south.
He says only about 10 to 15 of americans pronounce roof as rough.
The really bizarre one and not limited to michigan is the pronunciation of wash or washington as warsh and warshington.
And for nice try sake its called soda.