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05-28-2010, 11:18 AM
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2 random inquiries
1) how do you pronounce the word, "roof"?
I say both "rewf" and sometimes, "ruf" (rhymes with hoof . . . no, wait, that word has the same problem. Uh . . . doesn't rhyme with "rough" . . . more of a schwa sound. doesn't rhyme with anything? kinda rhymes with French "oeuf") 2) how do you write your "7s"? With a line through or not? I've written them with a line through ever since 6th grade when I had a teacher from New Zealand.
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05-28-2010, 11:24 AM
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I would pronounce roof like hoof, poof, spook...
But as I'm French, I may mispronounce. And I write the "7" digit with a bar in the middle.
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05-28-2010, 11:24 AM
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Come on, cat.
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Roof - like boot, not like pussy.
7 - no line
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05-28-2010, 11:25 AM
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Geez, jinx. You have to relate everything to cats, don't you?
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05-28-2010, 11:26 AM
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roof - rhymes with toof
no line in 7s, however! occasionally a diagonal slash in zeroes. (Comp sci major) |
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05-28-2010, 11:42 AM
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Gone and done
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r-ew-f
With a line.
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05-28-2010, 11:46 AM
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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rewf
no line
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05-28-2010, 11:53 AM
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REWF, LINE
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05-28-2010, 12:03 PM
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not sure anyone pronounces "roof" like me--I think it's an inherited Southernism, like "crick" for creek. But I might just be making that up!
And the funny thing is, I use both. I'd say, My rewf is leaking so I sent somebody up to the ruf to fix it.
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05-28-2010, 12:04 PM
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rewf
line at the top, who needs one in the middle? I'm not a German. they put the line in there to differentiate it from their 1s, which they write like a capital A without the cross slash in the middle. |
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05-28-2010, 12:27 PM
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I got nothing
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I pronounce it "rewf"...like aloof.
And I prefer my sevens without lines...much like my z's.
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05-28-2010, 12:56 PM
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rhymes with "toof" UT? nooooooo! rhymes with "woof"!
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05-28-2010, 01:06 PM
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Radical Centrist
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Rhymes with doof
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05-28-2010, 01:33 PM
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I'm still a jerk
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Hard r long o hard f
No lines I almost don't cross my t.
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