Plural of roof

Roofs was the exception which proved the rule - always has been roofs - one of the lovely anomalies of the English language - another one is sheep - that so confused a French boy who always wanted to add an 's' - but he could tell you six or seven meanings of the word flush!-
1) the toilet or flush out with flow of water
2 )Hand in cards
3) with money
4)blush
5) level surface
6)flush out (game birds)

Like it, alea

There's never been any confusion for me: roofs and hooves. Crazy language

Right or wrong I would write roofs and hooves but I'd say rooves.

I've always used rooves and hooves

Best just to avoid the plural - 'Santa landed carefully on each roof'.

Alea - love the tooth!

" It ain't the 'unting on the 'ills
That 'urts the 'orses' 'ooves
But the 'ammer, 'ammer , 'ammer on the 'ard 'igh road."

I have NO idea where that came from, but it is something I remember from my childhood.
So " 'ooves"

That's funny. I thought hooves and rooves used to be regarded as correct but are now being replaced by hoofs and roofs.

Roof - Roofs
Dwarf - Dwarfs
But
Hoof - Hooves
Tooth (oh, forget it! )

That is interesting - I wondered what people's gut reaction would be.

I looked it up on the net and it seems that roofs was correct, but that rooves is gaining acceptance and has become acceptable. It is following the same trajectory as hoofs, which has gradually gone out of fashion and hooves is now the thing. There is even a graph online.

Interestingly my typing of rooves on here has been greeted with a wavy red line!

Roofs.

Hoofs is acceptable now too.

Roofs.

I think rooves or is it roofs or roofes - none of them look right

I believe it's roofs.

Hoof hooves
Roof roofs
Dwarf dwarves or dwarfs