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Old 02-05-2019, 17:23   #59
RichardCoulter
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Re: Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.

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Originally Posted by Stephen View Post
must be very very old then.
This is where I got the info from:

https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...plural-of-roof

Looks as though you could be right as of of these comments claims that it changed in 1755 (though others disagree).

I only realised that there were two possible spellings in use after starting a thread asking if VM still do installs over roofs/rooves

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