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?

Where I come from you would not want that name to be pronounced as Bruck as it’s slang for I have no money
but each to their own I suppose 😂

But if she’s telling you it’s boo-kay and not bo-kay, why can’t you just say boo-kay? Because you wouldn’t normally say boo-kay? Well, so what? It’s her name, it’s pronounced how it is. I’d imagine you can say boo-kay as well as you can say Bruck? FWIW, I say bo-kay, but when Mrs Bucket tells me it’s boo-kay then boo-kay it is.

Katie holmes pronounces her name with an American accent. So the same very soft tap you get in an American “water”. Not the hard “T” you hear when Katie Price says her own name.

I've googled it and it sounds the same? Danny (dannee), Katie (kaytee), I wouldn't be changing the construct of their name, it would be the same recognisable name if I said it back to them in my own accent, which is what I would do.

a T and a D rhymes, so with Katie (Kaytee/Kaydee) you aren't changing the construct or sound of the name by using your own accent. it's just a slight change on the consonant sound, you wouldn't be saying a different name by using a different accent, so unless I'm missing something I'm not quite sure what you're getting at?

Changing an UH sound to an OOO sound, changes the pronunciation, which is the problem with names like Brooke.

This confuses me. In my accent book is pronounced buck. Look is the same as luck.
I would pronounce Brooke as bruck. Just like I called “Brookside” bruckside.

Those that are saying the parents are wrong - no they aren’t. Brooke pronounced bruck is a common name (known more in America than here). But the OP is also not wrong. In their accent the name is pronounced “broook”. Just like they’d say “loook” for look and boook for book.

For exactly the same reason that a Liverpudlian might pronounce Claire as "Clur".; Because that's how it is said in that accent.

But we are talking about someone’s name. Not water.

Are liverpudlians unable to make the same sounds as other people? 🤔

For me, luck and look are pronounced exactly the same. And Brooke is pronounced Bruck. And when I hear the wiktionary recordings as Bruck too.

I’m NW/Yorkshire way

Yeah it doesn’t rhyme with Duck! 🦆

Are you able to say Clur? Would you call a Claire from Liverpool Clur or Claire?

but it does! The way it’s pronounced on that Wiki recording absolutely rhymes with duck!

How do you pronounce duck?!

But if you called her Claire and she said, I actually prefer Clur.. you would still continue to call her Claire "because you are right"?

Wouldn't you just call her by what she wants?

It's not mimicking her accent to use the name Clur, I can say it in my accent perfectly fine, it doesn't matter that her name is spelled Claire, it is her name and her choice what she asks people to call her.

There's no logic or consistency in what you're saying.

Changing a T sound to a D doesn't change the pronunciation, but changing an UH sound to an OOO sound does? Come on, both are alterations caused by different accents.

Saying a New York Danny in a Derbyshire accent makes no difference but saying Brooke in a Newcastle accent makes the name unrecognisable? Nonsense.

Your definition of what is a "slight" change and what isn't it completely arbitrary.

Brooke said in a Newcastle accent isn't a different name to Brooke said in a Yorkshire accent. Only the accent has changed. People say names in different accents.

How you never watched Eastenders, or Corrie or Briokside? How about Auf Weidersehen, Pet?
Have you not noticed that names sound different in different accents? Do you think that there are different spellings used in different parts of the country, so those called “Claire” who live in Liverpool actually spell it “Clur”?

She would never say that, though, because her name isn't Clur pronounced in various accents. It's Claire, and in her accent it sound like Clur but someone without that accent saying Clur would sound bloody stupid. As far as she knows, she is saying Claire, not Clur!

But she wouldn't say that, because Claires in Liverpool know that the name Claire is pronounced differently outside their city

A T and a d do not “rhyme” ?! They are different consonant sounds. It changes the pronunciation just as much as changing a vowel.

are you saying that we should use the same vowel sounds as the way they say their own name, but consonants are fair game??

Changing a T sound to a D doesn't change the pronunciation, but changing an UH sound to an OOO sound does?

Good grief YES

KAYTEE, KAYDEE .. exactly the same construct, still both recognisable as Katie. Tee and Dee rhymes.

BRUCK, BREWWK.. changing the vowel sound changes the construct of the name, so the pronunciation sounds completely different.

Neither is right or wrong.. but Brooke wants to be called Bruck.. so why call her anything else when you are perfectly capable of saying the word 'Bruck'.

It's just being pedantic to refuse to call her by her preferred name.

Yes, exactly. There is no name "Clur".

The name is Claire. It is pronounced differently in different places, as everyone knows.

So completely irrelevant to OPs problem then.

No, your idea of “changing the construct” of a name and what is recognisable is not based on any linguistic fact.

The consonant sounds for “t” and “d” do not rhyme.

imagine Amy in a Belfast accent and Amy in a southern English accent. The first is something like “ee-uh mee” due to the diphthong used for that vowel sound in a Belfast accent, the second more like “ay-mee”. Do you think English people should put on a Harry Enfield as William Ulsterman style voice and call northern Irish Amy “ee-uh mee”??? If someone tried that I’d presume they were mocking me. It’s not a normal thing to do.

No, completely relevant to the question "Is it unreasonable to pronounce Brooke as BrOOke?" No. No, it isn't.

And it's a 7 year old who thinks it is unreasonable who, presumably, doesn't yet realise that different people in different places pronounce the same names differently.

"Changing the construct" is your own concept that doesn't mean anything.

No. Some Liverpudlians (eg Cilla Black type accent) will pronounce it Clur, but others (myself included) (more of an Abbey Clancy type accent) pronounce it more like Cler.