AIBU for pronouncing the name Brooke as BrOOKe rather than Bruck

Sorry! I imagined a Scottish person I know saying bruck and truck 🤣

The lady who recorded herself has helped me.

A friend who is a teacher had a student named Siobhan. First day of class my friend pronounced the name Shiv-on, only to be told by the girl that it was See-oh-ban. My friend cracked on and called her See-oh-ban from then on (even although is set her teeth on edge). Was that wrong? I'm not sure of the age of the girl, but she must have been high school age, so had likely been told the correct pronunciation before.

If my sister introduced herself to you as Keay-eh would you honestly call her that? Or would you realise her name was Katie and just call her Katie the way you normally pronounce it?

NEITHER! I'd ask her about it because it would sound unusual to me, and ask her what she would prefer I call her.. and I'd call her whatever she said.. because I'm not a clueless dickhead.

I think calling someone Katie, when it isn't pronounced that way and you have absolutely NO CLUE that their name is actually spelled "Katie" is just the height of ignorance.

I would call him Erb and think he was nuts.

(Americans don't drop the H in the name. See "Herbie" the Disney film, Herbie Hancock etc.)

If someone told you their name was Dave, it wouldn't matter if they pronounced it in a Yorkshire accent, a Cockney accent, a Belfast accent or a South African accent. You would know they had said Dave.

You wouldn't need to spell it.

You would be very odd if you started saying their name in their accent.

If they then insisted that you pronounced the word Dave as they did, I would think they were very odd.

Because you'd know Brewk isn't a usual name and you'd guess it was how they're pronouncing Brooke in their accent?

If my sister introduced herself to you as Keay-eh would you honestly call her that? Or would you realise her name was Katie and just call her Katie the way you normally pronounce it? I would probably laugh in your face if you put on an accent and said Keay-eh to be honest. It would sound absurd.

I know there is more than one British pronunciation. I am not Google.

To me, the Google pronunciations sound clearly different. Do they to you?

This lot would!!

But how would you know how it is spelled unless you saw it written down? If someone told me their name is Brewk, I would call them Brewk, it's just common courtesy, you're not mimicking their accent by saying their NAME the way they prefer.

If you couldn't bring yourself to pronounce it in their preferred way, at the very least you would check if calling them Brooke/Bruck was okay?

Just changing the whole pronunciation of their name to suit yourself is ignorant.

It could also be that you hear differences more clearly in your own accent than you do in others that you're less familiar with.

Kind of like how an American might struggle to tell the differences between some British or Irish accents.

Me saying Brooke sat by the brook looking at a book.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ydUbQ5HqgnY?si=UuREPqaIW2qeoYGq

I know you said you could hear a difference, Art but they sound the same to me. Maybe I've just got cloth ears!

Several pages back someone posted the southern English pronunciation of truck and it sounded like the video with the pronunciation of Brooke Shields. They sound very similar to me.

There's more than one British pronunciation.

I have literally no idea how the name Brooke could ever be pronounced Bruck, regardless of accent?!

It’s cordial in our house🤣

This map might help people out a bit.
In my accent putt and put sound the same, and Brooke and truck rhyme. I've got no hope if I meet the OPs Brookes parents. I cannot make the southern u sound.

I don't have the accent of my area. I once got corrected by a James for not calling him "Jay Ums"
If I tried to call him Jay Ums it would sound like I'm taking the piss because it would sound unnatural and over-emphisised. I respect his accent and don't try to "correct" it, my accent also deserves respect.

It's not like ignoring an established variation of a name such as ignoring/ adding the silent letter on Louis or Sarah.

I have friends with a variety of accents, British and international and my name has been varied, especially where key sounds have varied in international accents, and the sound doesn't quite exist in their language e.g. "th" sounding more like "f" or "z". It's just natural variation and people giving it a fair go.

Brooke and truck don’t remotely rhyme in a Scottish accent!!

So if we meet Herb from America and call him Herb, and he says “no, it’s pronounced Erb” we wouldn’t call him Erb? We’d continue to call him Herb?

Thank you for being a sad sack . I appreciate it.

There’s no rhotic r in Brooke. Even English people pronounce the R.

A rhotic r would be in the name Brooker - Brooka for non rhotic speakers and Brookerr for us rhotics.

Thank you to everyone who posted videos and voice notes. This is one of my favourite threads.

I get what you mean OP. I'm northern but once dated a guy from Bristol. He had a family member called Larry but everyone called him 'Lar'. It sounded great in their Bristol accent with the way they pronounce the letter r but in my Yorkshire accent it was more like Laaah. That sounded wrong but if I tried to say it in their accent it felt to me like I was taking the piss.

I just called him mate. 😂

Because people with regional accents aren't thick and they know that people pronounce things differently.

Helen would be like Ellen in my accent but it sounds like Helen, it's subtly different to how a southerner pronounces the name Ellen. So if I heard a southerner say Ellen I would think they meant Ellen and not Helen which is a different name.

Because it isn't in your accent.

@breakfastdinnerandtea Because her name wasn't Ellen which is a completely different name. It was Helen but in their accent they dropped the H.