AIBU for pronouncing the name Brooke as BrOOKe rather than Bruck

[MoserRothOrangeandAlmond]

I’m a Geordie and pronounce words such as Book, Look and Cook with an oo sound rather than the uck sound.
A family who are from about an hour a way said that her daughter is sick of everyone pronouncing her name incorrectly.

I explained that it’s an accent thing as we pronounce those words with an oo sound rather that uck so it wouldn’t occur to most people to pronounce it that way and they wouldn’t deliberately mispronounce her name!

Just as if I go another part of the country or different country they pronounce my name differently depending on their accent.

AIBU?

I think people have got mixed up by the Bruck attempt to write it phonetically to convey a shorter uh. Like someone else say the composer Bruchner (brook) not Bruck to rhyme with Buck.

The difference is

Northern book/brooke with an OOO sound so it would rhyme with puke (pewk) - don't pewk in the brewk. Brook said in this way will rhyme with puke.

Southern book/brooke with a shorter vowel sound that is like the composer Bruchner - this wouldn't rhyme with puke.

If you click on the play icon just below the word here, this is the standard RP pronounciation that has the shorter vowel that some people I think I trying to write as bruck but it is more of an uhhh short sound:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/brook

When you say they pronounced it 'bruck', is that the same sound as duck, muck, truck?

If you search pronounce names on YouTube, none of them sound like Broooooke, they all sound closer to Bruck.

No, here we say Bruck, exactly the same as Buck.

Of course it’s pronounced Bruck. Same as Look is pronounced Luck not Luke. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m originally from the NW, lived in the south for over 20 years, the way I pronounce Brook, truck, book and buck are all the same. All flat vowel sounds. The alternative (which is what I think the Op is saying, as I have geordie family) is to pronounce the OO as a long sound, like in whoo hooo! So I think the family just want the name pronounced in the way someone with a southern accent or some northern accents would naturally pronounce it. Rather than with a long Oo sound which is specific to some (but not all) northern English prononuciation.

No, here we say Bruck, exactly the same as Buck.

Yes - that's a different variation like the video I linked above but I don't think that is what the OP meant or what the bulk of the confusion is about.

Book isn’t pronounced buck, look isn’t pronounced luck so I’m not sure where you’re getting this from.

Book is pronounced buck and look is pronounced ‘luck’ where I live. How else would they be pronounced?

Oh I see what you mean, sorry. I agree, I think the OP is saying Brooke to rhyme with puke.

How does look sounds different to luck?
and book sound different to buck?

very confused by this thread.

Look and luck are pronounced very differently in the RP/southern accent. Look is also not pronounced the same as moon, there’s 3 very different sounds.

Absolutely. Food and book may have the double oo but their pronunciation is completely different. One is a long vowel sound, the other is short.

Anyone who says that 'look' and 'Luke' are the same quite frankly needs their head read. The only way you could justify that would be if you were an American where there is a greater similarity in the pronunciation. In fact, the traditional English pronunciation of 'Luke's is closer to Luk than Look with a very slight y sound.

In the RP/southern accent they are very different sounds.

The point is the pronunciation of ‘oo’ varies. Both in different accents, and different words.

When op writes Bruck she means with the short sound in look or book, as opposed to her accent where oo is always long like in fool or spoon.
so /brʊk/ v /bru:k/

I am and OK I sit corrected! I have never heard that name pronounced Bruck!

@Overthebowwell I guess a southerner might say it more like ‘lak’

Brooke rhymes with look.
Luck rhymes with duck. Not Brooke.

Well no, because in a southern accent look and buck are very different. Whoo hoo is a different sound again. So three different sounds. You’re saying where you are from there’s only two sounds? Look/buck and the long oo.

I’m a northerner and have a southerner friend called Sandra who likes it to be pronounced Sarndra. It’s not natural for me, but I do it because that’s what she prefers to be called. It’s her name. YWBVU to carry on mis-pronouncing Brooke now you know what the preferred pronunciation is.

No, southerners say luck with an u, and look with short oo. Lak would be something completely different.

But what about the actress Brooke Shields? All my life I have heard on tv it is pronounced Bruck and that is how I would say it

Not to everyone!!!

Yes two sounds u and oo, same in W.Yorkshire.

But how do you pronounce "Bruck"? Not the same way that other people pronounce 'Bruck".

(Honestly, this is why we have a phonetic alphabet...)

Not to me it isn't. Luke and look sound exactly the same