AIBU for pronouncing the name Brooke as BrOOKe rather than Bruck

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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?

Anyone who says that 'look' and 'Luke' are the same quite frankly needs their head read.

Seriously @DisabledDemon? You think the majority of people in NI need their heads read? I think we’re ok here thanks. You’re probably like one of the many English people I have met who think it’s hilaaarious to ask us to pronounce certain words just to get a laugh. Disclaimer: I realise that not all English people are like this, but it’s ALWAYS someone English when it happens.

Yes absolutely, put and putt sound exactly the same. And sounds completely different to root and boot in my accent. Accents really are fascinating

Southerners like to do it with my accent too and I'm English 🤷

@notonthescrx my friend's little boy loved Toy Story and he got very cross indeed with her for calling Andy, Andy. His name was Endy apparently, and he wouldn't have it any differently 😂

Same here. I have a Yorkshire accent but my version and the OP's version are the only pronunciations I've ever heard (or can think of).

How else would book be pronounced?

https://youtube.com/shorts/7nxLCgZtZCs?feature=share

Accents are hard to describe and I am a gigantic sad sack so I recorded a short video of me saying some words and uploaded it to youtube. Its unlisted so can only be seen from the link.

Brooke, luck and book are the same in my very northern accent.

Now Im off to see if I can pick up a modestly priced life from Ebay.

Not all northern accents, in mine and many others book, buck and Brooke are all rhyming. If you went 10 minutes up the road they would say it with the long ooooo sound

@DisabledDemon I'll add Scottish people to your rude assumption

quite.
she’ll have an anuerysm when she finds out that here, hear, ear and year are all pronounced the same in my local dialect in Wales.

Moon and book are very different with a Yorkshire accent. To me, moon rhymes with spoon and book is pronounced the same as buck.

This is perfect and describes exactly how it sounds like "Bruck"

Sounds like luck not Luke with my accent.

This is my thoughts too, I wouldn't have said it was intentionally pronounced wrong just an accent thing.

Im a Geordie and would also say BrOOke

Aaarrrrghhh!

To all those people saying "There is nowhere in the country where Brooke is pronounced Bruck."

YOU ARE WRONG!

YOU ARE RIGHT to say that no-one would prounouce Brooke in the way that a Southern English speaker would pronounce the word "Bruck", but only because you are assuming that everyone would pronounce the word "Bruck" in the same way a Southern English speaker would.|

YOU ARE WRONG to assume that everyone will see the made-up word "Bruck" and pronounce it the same way. If a Yorkshire speaker sees the word Bruck, they will pronounce it to rhyme with book. That's how they pronounce luck, muck and tuck. So, in their accent, Brooke rhymes with Bruck (but what you see as Bruck is not how they are reading it in their heads).

But how do you pronounce "luck"??!!

That's not true.

It's pronounced to rhyme with book in standard English pronunciation everywhere.

Only certain regional accents make it rhyme with the vowel sound of soup.

I had this with 'Cheryl' that the individual wanted pronounced Chair All ...It took me a while to manage...despite trying ..she had an ugly personality..I was super glad when she left my life...I have a name that is repeatedly misspelt Anne for Ann...I don't tell people off about it...even when they do it having received correspondence from me with my correct spelling. Sometimes making a fuss, creating nervousness adds to the likelihood of a mispronunciation mistake.

Love this.

Would the "repeat the way the name is said" people on this thread put on an American accent to greet their American friend, "Endy"?

I think the confusion is though that you and others are describing words such as book and look to be pronounced like truck. For those of us in the south with RP/southern accents, you’re not pronouncing look like truck, you’re pronouncing truck like look. Your look is the same as my look, but your truck is different to my truck. So when OP describes Brooke sounding like bruck it makes no sense to me at all because it’s not, and that’s not what op means, it’s pronouncing Brooke with a short oo to be like mine and your look.

I suppose like the average Liverpudlian says fuck. If that's not too difficult for you to work out.

Yes, I have to agree that it seems to come from people towards the south of England.

It has nothing to do with rhoticism! It’s a different pronunciation of the vowel sound ‘oo’.

if anything it’s the parents pronouncing it incorrectly. i’ve never heard it said any other way than how you are saying it. i’m scottish and definitely say it the same as in book!

@TheBewleySistersyes

It all depends on how you pronounce buck and luck!