General Chat

Real name?! Well there's a question!! :-S

Just as well then ... as two or more girls with my real name in certain parts of England especially would be ROOVES ;-)

:-D :-D :-D

'Roofs is the plural of Roof in all varieties of English. Rooves is an old secondary form, and it still appears occasionally by analogy with other irregular plurals such as hooves, but is not common enough to be considered standard'.

Just as well the old Drifters song was not plural ... or it may never have been recorded!

lalala ... Up on the ROOVES / ROOFS :-S :-S :-D

Sir John Cheke (16 June 1514 – 13 September 1557) was an English classical scholar who wrote:

‘I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges; wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt‘.

Well, as I said, my sister is older than me - and she spells it 'roofs'!

I was taught rooves. It is age related? ;-)

Roofs! I think!!

Very likely Maggie :-D :-D :-D

JemimaFawr - thank goodness!
Did we both go to schools run by incarnations of the past! :-D

Just like to say, My sister is older than me - but I was taught the 'old fashioned' way.

That was life then, Maggie.

Ann, I too read Janet and John for a short while.
What caught my attention was that John was always 'doing' things, while Janet watched on in admiration - 'See John fly his kite - see, Janet, see how high it flies! Well done John'
Then Janet was called back home to help with dinner.
I didn't notice the spelling - just the injustice!

I was also taught in Primary School to spell it ROOVES, Maggie :-D

you say tomarto, we say tomayto
etc...

I live in the land of glasshouses and was most puzzled when I read in my first Janet and John book (Here We Go) that they lived in a green house. I did wonder abou their privacy issues.

Just checked something I remembered reading a Blyton book when about 8 years old and have just checked her spelling the title was The family at red roofs. She spelt it with the fs ending. That would have been in the 1940s. I wondered if it was one of those spelling that had changed recently and whether rooves was the old spelling but it seems not.

I think 'outwith' also means outside in Scotland - that's where I picked it up :-D
(started school in Lossiemouth) Definitely means outside in Shetland.
Confuses 'Sooth Moothers' in Hampshire!
My conversation is spattered with Scottish-isms and Cornish-isms. :-S

Meanwhile, my writing is spattered with outdated spellings :-S

I am sure I have used both rooves and roofs because I could not decide which is correct.

Outwith is in common usage here in Scotland, as is uplift, meaning collect.