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.

r-ewwwww-f
and no line

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.

Roof - like boot, not like pussy.
7 - no line

Geez, jinx. You have to relate everything to cats, don't you?

roof - rhymes with toof
no line in 7s, however! occasionally a diagonal slash in zeroes. (Comp sci major)

r-ew-f
With a line.

rewf
no line

REWF, LINE

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.

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.

I pronounce it "rewf"...like aloof.

And I prefer my sevens without lines...much like my z's.

rhymes with "toof" UT? nooooooo! rhymes with "woof"!

Rhymes with doof

Hard r long o hard f

No lines I almost don't cross my t.

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!)

oh gawd hair sucks right now, needs dying but pool opening weekend makes that totally pointless....

(but thanks)

I slash my Z's. Realized this because I did it tonight, especially since the Z followed a 2 in an authorization number from an insurance company. I usually write everything else in an extraordinarily sloppy cursive, so I don't think about it.

Oh yeah, I didn't mention, but I slash my Zs too.

big or small Z?

That's how I sometimes write my 1's too, and that's why I sometimes crosses my 7's.

Both.

Who's Zed?

Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead.

me three

Cue:

We shall call you Zorro.

Zorro: You recognize that famous sign?
Old Man: Si senior. It is a Two.
Zorro: That is a Z!
Old Man: But in the school, that is how they teach my granddaughter to draw a Two.
Zorro: *I* say it is a *Z* - For El Zorro!

I also, both tall and small.