Plural of roof

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I like to think of myself as quite well educated, and reasonably good with grammar.

But I have just found (while researching to prove the error of someone else's ways) that the officially accepted plural of roof is roofs not rooves, as I was taught as a child.

Has anyone else come across this? Am I going mad? Everywhere I look, it's like the word "rooves" is being wiped from history or something!

Surely it should work the same as hoof?

It is not wrong, just not popular.

michcommunication.com/english-evolution-from-rooves-to-roofs/

Interesting read. Well it was for me!

Lots of words evolve like this though don't they? Like the past participle of "to dive" is changing from dove to dived. I think

I thought rooves and dove were US usage.

Rooves looks wrong. I'm not particularly bothered about spellings, as I've always struggled with spelling. But roofs looks and sounds right to me

It is still hooves not hoofs in the equine world.

I was definitely taught Rooves as the plural of roof at school.
There was a house near me called red roofs and I'd chuckle to myself that their house name was spelled incorrectly.
Except it seems that they were right after all !
And yes to hoof and hooves

We were taught that the plural was roofs.