AIBU for pronouncing the name Brooke as BrOOKe rather than Bruck

Surely you'd be more inclined to take the Michael 😁

How many times??!!
Think of how a Yorkshire person says truck. It rhymes with how a Southerner says book

Yes I know, it's been pointed out to me multiple times.
That's the opposite way round. There's still no evidence of anyone with a Southern or Scottish accent saying Brooke like truck.

How can you not know that some people say bath, grass and giraffe in different ways??!

How many times??!!

Think of how a Yorkshire person says truck. It rhymes with how a Southerner says book.

@Vynalbob good to know. I concur 😄

This thread is mad.

Definitely Look, Brook, Cook and f🦆 duck would all work for a limerick here.👀🙄

When you say u sound, do you mean uh or u as in ooo? 🫠😁

I'm from county Durham. Up near Stanley would say Broook with an ewk sound but down my way, it'd definitely be Bruh-k ....I think.

Anyway, as you were. Everyone should just say stuff in their own accent otherwise we'd all have to practice names in cockney, east mids, Liverpool, Durham, Newcastle..... Haha. So silly. It's be like we're taking the piss.

Where I live in the Midlands...they say names totally different to me. E.g. Kyle to me is one sound...like mile. Here it's Kye-yull or my-yull. I didn't study the local accent as a condition of living here and nobody has forced me to say their name in a fake mids accent. . 😁

It’s a London/ mid Atlantic pronunciation. I listen to book review programmes and I would say boook as I’m Scottish but Londoners (possibly wanting to be cooool) and Americans say Buk

YANBU it’s your accent and they need to get over it. My mum always pronounced the words look, cook, book exactly how you’ve described snd there’s a Brooke in our family and no one would have batted an eyelid if she were here today. And honestly we don’t even know where that came from with her because she’s from Cheshire not somewhere you’d expect someone to say those words that way!

Forgot to add.... someone's name is entirely their choice....I'd try to adhere but if someone (and they did) regularly said mine wrong I'd not correct them all the time (life's too short)

what other way is there to say it though? Brewk???😁

Just... Brooke. Like brook. Not like truck, or indeed fuck, suck or muck.

Sorry, I'm from County Durham and through childhood always said those words as a 'u' sound....to the disparagement of the teachers. Maybe Newcastle is particular or maybe it's our ages that make the difference.....or you listened to the teacher more 👀😁.

Biased as I’m a Geordie but Bruck is ridiculous

The issue is accent but also the double OO sound has 2 different distinct sounds. Not your fault you picked the wrong one, just try and correct now

If someone says their name out loud then it's going to be said how they say it but if it's written down in this case BrOOke then that it's automatically going to be OO , I'm Scottish and that's how we were taught to say it in skool many years ago.

Imagine the queen saying Brooke and Truck, they wouldn't rhyme.

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I am Scottish, I would say Pearill. I am not going to start saying Pehhhhhhl as that would sound ridiculous.

As I said way back up the thread, this was a good chance to explain to little Brooke that there are lots of people in the UK and further afield and that not everyone says things in the same way. That it's not right or wrong, it's just different and that there are lots of ways in which people are different etc etc etc. And that Auntie @MoserRothOrangeandAlmond says Brooke and not Bruck because she is from the north east and that is the local accent.

But no. Brooke's parents are too thick to get their heads around different accents all being correct. Parochial, insular, close-minded. Poor Brooke.

what other way is there to say it though? Brewk???😁

I wonder if King Charles has ever asked any Scots to pronounce his name without the R sound in the middle

King Churrells!

Btw I've been picturing people saying Bruck as rhyming with truck - surely not though?!

Brooke is Bruck, as in a babbling brook, I just could not say Brewk, how ridiculous

Fair enough. You just label people as mentally deficient for pronouncing things in a way you don’t recognise. I get it.

I’m going to say it. I think seven-year-old Brook is being v precious and her parents are being ridiculous by pandering to it.

My kids have reasonably common UK names. Their names often get mispronounced, especially by non-native English speakers in London. They and we could not care less. As long as there is no malign intent, it does not matter. (The only occasion we were mildly irritated, was one child’s graduation as they had all been asked to write down clearly in advance how they wanted their names pronounced. The woman then mispronounced my daughter’s name which made us roll our eyes a bit.)

Brook’s parents needs to get a grip and tell their child that this does not matter.

I'm English and certainly don't ask people to pronounce particular words just so that I can laugh at them.

I would like to point out that OP’s AIBU was not “Am I being unreasonable to continue to say Broooke not Bruck now that I have been told to say Bruck?”

It was Is it unreasonable to use your own accent to say a person’s name rather than imitate how they say it? This stemmed from the revelation that the family considered her (and everyone else in the area) to have been mispronouncing the name all these years. OP was perfectly aware that her rendition was different to that of the parents but had no idea it was considered a “mispronunciation”. To be clear, she had not previously been expressly asked to say it as “Bruck”.