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?

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 for being a sad sack . I appreciate it.

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?

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

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.

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.

It’s cordial in our house🤣

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

This lot would!!

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?

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

The lady who recorded herself has helped me.

Let me get this straight. Someone with a very pedestrian name introduces themselves in their accent and instead of saying their name in your normal accent, you would mimic their accent? I’d think you were nuts, sorry. I introduce myself with a Scottish accent as I am Scottish. I don’t expect people to affect a Scottish accent for my name as that would sound absurd and like they were taking the piss.

I have googled both words with "British pronunciation" and I get exactly the same videos that were already posted earlier in the thread. So maybe you can just take me at my word that they sound very similar to me, rather than trying to prove I'm wrong.

So if a Cockney said ‘my name’s Dave’ but said it in their accent as ‘Die-ve’ or however it would sound, would you say ‘oh what an unusual name! And how would you like me to pronounce that?’ Or would you just say ‘Dave’ in your accent? Or would you do a Dick van Dyke Cockney accent every time you spoke to him?

This is really sending me

OP can say the word "Bruck" .. in the same way she can say the word "Truck" it is IN HER NORMAL VOCABULARY RANGE, she doesn't "need" to "mimic someone else's accent" to achieve the word "Bruck", it is already right their, not weird, or tongue twisting, or piss taking.. it's a word that would come VERY naturally for her to say IN HER OWN ACCENT.

If Brooke wants to be called "Bruck" (which she does!!), then why should people INSIST on calling her Broooke just because that is how they say the same spelled name in their region, when she has quite clearly said she wants to be called Bruck.

I'm from Derbyshire and would call her Bruck anyway.

Katie said in a different accent would sound “unusual” to you to the point you would have to clarify if what you were hearing was a different accent or a different name? That is bonkers.