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?

You jest but when I lived in the Midwest I did have to put on an American accent to be understood for water. Butter was the same

This is lighthearted but I don’t know why there are so many replies to my comments with hypotheticals about how I’d say such and such haha!

Yes even if a name was pronounced differently for two people, I’d say them how they’d like because it’s their name! Just my opinion 😊

A better UK example might be if a Londoner with a cockney accent said his name was 'erb, dropping the 'h' and his wife introduced herself as 'arriet And yes, I'd call them Herb and Harriet. Obviously. As any sane person without a similar accent would, unless they were taking the piss.

Exactly. And if Herb and Harriet had posh friends with the same names at the same dinner table, no-one sane would call one of them 'erb and one of them Herb.

You do know you can say peoples names, how they say them without mimicking their accent don't you.. you seem so confused by the concept it's scary.

All names and words are constructed using the same vowel/consonant sounds, you can say those same sounds in your own accent and construct the same words as other people do in their own accents without mimicking them, they will sound slightly different obviously but the construct will be exactly the same.

Op could say the word "Bruck".. she is CHOOSING to change the construct of the name to Broooke because that is her own preferred pronunciation instead.

Of course you wouldn't 😂 you'd just say Julie in your own accent

It's NOT the word Bruck though, it's the name Brooke

I am from the north east but not a Geordie. I have lived many places. I went to uni in Dundee.

I remember this conversation a few times over the years.

I used to find it bizarre that we had a French classmate and some people would put on a French accent to say her name. It just seemed really weird to me. My name actually is a French name but we don't say it that way in Britain. I wouldn't expect anyone in France to suddenly pronounce it the British way.

I also remember someone I worked with when I lived in Scotland taking offense at English pronunciation of her name. I asked her how she would say Grant.... It was not how someone from Southern England would say it of course. She found this mind-blowing that I suggested unless she put on an accent to say "Graaaahnt" then she was being daft.

My mum has always hated how southerners say her name.

It's just what happens. This thread is mad 😂

Why does it matter when that is what she wants people to call her?!

I pronounce Brooke as Bruck anyway, but pronouncing people's names the way they are spelled/pronounced in your own region INSTEAD of the way they SAY they prefer is just disrespectful.

So if you were talking to Katie Holmes and Katie Price you would call KH Kaydee and KP Kaytee?

I mean you do you but please know people will think you are crackers

Oh yes and you'd think Julia Donaldson would know better than to try to rhyme scarf and giraffe given she lived a good chunk of time in Glasgow.

My accent is my accent, it's the way I speak and part of me. My brother is called Craig. His name is Cr-ay-g not Cregg but he doesn't throw his rattle out the pram when North Americans call him Cregg. Or when he did a Spanish degree and found that the hard g sound does not exist in Spanish so became Cray.

Scottish people generally don't go off in a strop when English people can't pronounce words and say lock not loch.

OP your friend is being batshit crazy. This is an opportunity to teach little Brooke that there is a whole world out there, and not everyone says things the way they do in her little part of England. Parochial, insular attitudes at their best.

The scarf and giraffe line annoys me every time 😂

Because you can't ask people to completely change their accent when they're saying it correctly, just in a different accent.

Bouquet is a good example.

It can be pronounced Boo-kay (mainly UK) or Bo-kay (mainly American).

Calling her Hyacinth Bucket would be deliberately rude.

Calling her Bouquet, of either pronunciation, is just an accent.

A certain segment of Scots are famous for taking offence at anything the English say and do. I am saying this as a proud Scot myself, who manages not to be offended by the English just for the sake of it.

I'm not sure I'm following.. where has the D come from? In Derbyshire Katie is usually pronounced Kaytee.. apparently in other places it is pronounced without the t.

Am American introduces himself to you as Danny.

How do you say Danny in your Derbyshire accent the way he says it without mimicking his accent?

How do you think Americans pronounce Katie?

Giraffe and scarf is exactly the one I was thinking of!

We have another other book that tries to rhyme four and sure too.

Actually, you're right. She was one of those 😂

I have one that tries to rhyme poor and more, sound totally different in my accent

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdueLCDw/

But they aren't saying it "correctly"!!.. there's no right and wrong with accents, just differences! You can tell how biased you are.

The CORRECT way to pronounce someone name is how they WANT you to pronounce it, if you pronouncing it in your own dialect changes it to a different word then you are actually constructing the word incorrectly.

Accents don't really come into it.. I can say Brewk and Bruck in my same accent, I would call Brooke whatever she wanted quite easily without mimicking anyone's accent or changing my voice in any way.

And how would you say Danny in my American question?

No, I’d do as I said I would so you can stop speaking for me 😂