--- title: 'Not Just a Rhetorical Question (or Three)' date: '2006-01-19T09:52:01-05:00' permalink: /not-just-a-rhetorical-question-or-three/ tags: - pondering --- Is the plural of “roof” *roofs* or *rooves*? Is one U.S. usage and the other a Britishism? Which is which?