Hoose meaning house? [closed]

Pronunciation of 'house' as hoose:

The pronunciation /huːs/ is a remnant of Old English in some dialects of Present Day English. In Old English, 'house' was written hūs and it would've been pronounced /xuːs/¹ or /huːs/.

In Middle English, it was pronounced /huːs/ (hoose). The Great Vowel Shift changed the qualities if almost all the long vowels. It changed the original long vowel of 'house' /uː/ to a diphthong /aʊ/ in most dialects; however, as the Wiki article notes, the shift didn't operate on long back vowels in Northern English because they had undergone an earlier shift. That article also says that /uː/ remained unaffected.

That article goes on to say that the long vowels /iː/, /eː/, and /oː/ in Northern English shifted, but '/uː/ in house did not'.

Here's a chart illustrating the vowel shifts:

[Great Vowel Shift - Wikipedia]

Wiktionary says the spelling 'hoose' is dialectal.

There's also a disease 'hoose', though that is with a /z/ sound at the end.

NOTES:

1. According to the Wikipedia article on Old English, [h, ç] were the allophones of the phoneme /x/ occurring word-initially and after a front vowel, respectively. Though I'm not entirely sure, that's why I've written both /xuːs/ and /huːs/.

Hoose, a Scottish variant of house:

HOUSE, n., v. Also hoose (Gen.Sc.)

2. Combs.: (1) hoose-a-gate, adj., gossiping from door to door (Ork. 1957), used as a v. in vbl.n., hooseagettan, visiting each other's houses. Cf. (3); (2) hoosamenyie, -minya, hoose-menyie, an uproar, disturbance, quarrel (Ork. 1929 Marw.).

(History of the Scots language)

Hoose is present also in Northern England and as The Oxford History of English notes about the GVS:

There are two words involved in your question:

1. House, in standard English, pronounced /haʊs/(rhymes with "mouse") = a dwelling place.

1a. Hoose, in the Scottish and Northeastern English dialects, pronounced /huːs/ (rhymes with "noose") = a dwelling place.

(There are many other spellings of dialect versions of "house", one of which is 19th century Irish English "hooze")

2. Hoose or hooze, in in standard English, pronounced /huːz/ (rhymes with "whose") - a disease of sheep.