Comments on: back in my day… http://deborahkalin.com/damselfly/2010/01/back-in-my-day/ Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:19:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: damselfly http://deborahkalin.com/damselfly/2010/01/back-in-my-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2465 damselfly Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:35:59 +0000 http://deborahkalin.com/?p=2597#comment-2465 You learnt rooves as well? See, now the world has gone topsy-turvy: I always thought of "roofs" as the American spelling, but that's wrong? Either way, now apparently it's the worldwide spelling (except for the Kiwis, who are apparently hanging on to rooves. Good on the Kiwis, I say! Roofs is ridiculously hard to pronounce without it becoming rooves, if you ask my palate.) You learnt rooves as well? See, now the world has gone topsy-turvy: I always thought of "roofs" as the American spelling, but that's wrong?

Either way, now apparently it's the worldwide spelling (except for the Kiwis, who are apparently hanging on to rooves. Good on the Kiwis, I say! Roofs is ridiculously hard to pronounce without it becoming rooves, if you ask my palate.)

]]> By: Stephanie Leary http://deborahkalin.com/damselfly/2010/01/back-in-my-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2464 Stephanie Leary Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:18:56 +0000 http://deborahkalin.com/?p=2597#comment-2464 WTF? I'm American, my education was decidedly mid-80s, and I learned "rooves" too. WTF? I'm American, my education was decidedly mid-80s, and I learned "rooves" too.

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