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Brooke and Reece. your comments please

83 replies

Leanne1989 · 16/01/2009 15:28

Brooke- girl
Reece -boy
this is my first child due start of april just wondered what you thought of these names

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Sycamoretree · 16/01/2009 16:05

Reece's pieces, so nice for your nieces!

CantSleepWontSleep · 16/01/2009 16:04

pmsl

I think you might want to reconsider Leanne!

And Reece just looks like you couldn't spell Rhys.

MaryAnnSingleton · 16/01/2009 16:03

dh who is from Nottingham sometimes pronounces book and butcher like 'buck' and 'buttcher'

Botbot · 16/01/2009 16:02

Brooke rhymes with fuck in my accent. As does book. And, indeed, duck.

Sycamoretree · 16/01/2009 16:01

It will hold no truck

bronze · 16/01/2009 16:00

Fook, what happens if you pronounce it Bruck?

jellybeans · 16/01/2009 15:52

Great names

belgo · 16/01/2009 15:50

Leanne1989 please don't name her Brooke unless you want this discussion

smellybulldog · 16/01/2009 15:50

I agree with belgo. Again though.. unless you have a particular accent that makes you say dook. Ey oop me dook (hello my duck).

Sycamoretree · 16/01/2009 15:50

And the bigger the difference between Brooke and Fuck, the posher you are!

bronze · 16/01/2009 15:50

LL {grin]

Lulumama · 16/01/2009 15:49
Grin
Sycamoretree · 16/01/2009 15:49

Ok Belgo, I see know, it's a very nuanced difference in pronunciation - I thought you were saying it was pronounced like

Brew..ke
or Spook!

MaryAnnSingleton · 16/01/2009 15:49

I've never heard Brooke pronounced to rhyme with 'fuck' - ever !

LadyLiffey · 16/01/2009 15:49

Do some people not know how to pronounce Fuck!?!?
Fooking 'ell

belgo · 16/01/2009 15:47

Brooke rhymes with book
fuck rhymes with duck

Lulumama · 16/01/2009 15:47

don;t like either, i;m afraid

LadyLiffey · 16/01/2009 15:47

I pronounce Brooke like Bruck. Truck.

How do you pronounce it?

Sycamoretree · 16/01/2009 15:46

I'm interested in how you pronouce Brooke in a way that DOESN't rhyme with Fuck!

It is pronounced that way - you know, like the little babbling brooke ran through the village.

Like the famous actress and sufferer of PND Brooke Sheilds.

Am I getting anywhere yet?!

belcantwait · 16/01/2009 15:46

dont like either of them sorry. hate to use the word but they sound a bit 'chavvy' (ew sorry) to me

Sycamoretree · 16/01/2009 15:44

I don't like them, sorry.

Any others to run by us?

traceybath · 16/01/2009 15:41

I do like Hope though!

MrsMattie · 16/01/2009 15:39

Don't like them, sorry.

belgo · 16/01/2009 15:38

'hate Brooke for a girl. Rhymes with Fuck'

Does it? How do you pronounce Brooke?

smellybulldog · 16/01/2009 15:38

I don't think Brooke rhymes with fuck unless you have an accent and pronounce it 'fook'