roof rhymes with goose

rufies

talking dog and man go into bar. "This dog can talk. If you give me a free beer, I'll make him talk."
"OK, let's hear him talk." says the bartender.

"What's the texture of sandpaper feel like?"
"Ruff, ruff."
"What's on the top of this building?"
"Roof, roof."
"Who was the greatest baseball player of all time?
"Ruth, ruth."
The bartender pulls a sap from behind the bar and chases them out.
As the man and dog are running down the block, the dog looks up,panting and asks
"D' ya think I shoulda said Dimaggio?"

I say rewf, but there are lots of others around here who say roeuf. It's a Southern accent thing. I betcha BusterB says "roeuf."

And I always cross my sevens. But I'm surprised at the number of other people here who say they do, because I've never run across anyone else in person who does it, except for the random person I decided to copy when I was in third grade.

long "oo" roof, used to cross 7s, then decided it was pretentious. Do cross Zeros to properly differentiate from Ohs, although not consistently.

lafs. I brought these items up with my cow orkers at lunch. They just shook their heads in bemusement and made half-admiring and half-disparaging remarks about my internal monologue.

:p:

rewf
I sometimes cross my 7's and sometimes I don't. Habit I picked up from all those french classes. In one of my classes in college, I had to demonstrate this particular teaching method (forgot the founder's name). This classmate commented that I did it wrong because it looked like Vietnamese learning style. She noticed that I crossed my 7's. Duh....I started school in the states, don't even know how schools are taught in Vietnam.

I occasionally put a diagonal slash in zeros too. :p:

British monster: r-ew-f
Michigandan monster: ruff

Line.

Southern thing? Everyone around here says "ruff" and you can't get much northerer

The crossed sevens thing is weird in the US (and in Britain a little) because ones are usually a simple vertical line, but in mainland Europe is common for the 1 to be written with a "roof/rewf/ruff" but no base so it can look like a 7, so the 7 is crossed to differentiate.

well, not sure. the "ruff" spelling to me seems to rhyme with "rough" and does not equate to what I'm saying. But I suspect there are more regional variations than we might think

What kind of dog was that?

that's a hugecock charming everyoneloves hound

monster gets brave (and ugly)
 

love the hair! (envy!)