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 wonder if King Charles has ever asked any Scots to pronounce his name without the R sound in the middle

King Churrells!

Btw I've been picturing people saying Bruck as rhyming with truck - surely not though?!

what other way is there to say it though? Brewk???😁

I am Scottish, I would say Pearill. I am not going to start saying Pehhhhhhl as that would sound ridiculous.

As I said way back up the thread, this was a good chance to explain to little Brooke that there are lots of people in the UK and further afield and that not everyone says things in the same way. That it's not right or wrong, it's just different and that there are lots of ways in which people are different etc etc etc. And that Auntie @MoserRothOrangeandAlmond says Brooke and not Bruck because she is from the north east and that is the local accent.

But no. Brooke's parents are too thick to get their heads around different accents all being correct. Parochial, insular, close-minded. Poor Brooke.

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Imagine the queen saying Brooke and Truck, they wouldn't rhyme.

If someone says their name out loud then it's going to be said how they say it but if it's written down in this case BrOOke then that it's automatically going to be OO , I'm Scottish and that's how we were taught to say it in skool many years ago.

The issue is accent but also the double OO sound has 2 different distinct sounds. Not your fault you picked the wrong one, just try and correct now

Biased as I’m a Geordie but Bruck is ridiculous

Sorry, I'm from County Durham and through childhood always said those words as a 'u' sound....to the disparagement of the teachers. Maybe Newcastle is particular or maybe it's our ages that make the difference.....or you listened to the teacher more 👀😁.

what other way is there to say it though? Brewk???😁

Just... Brooke. Like brook. Not like truck, or indeed fuck, suck or muck.

Forgot to add.... someone's name is entirely their choice....I'd try to adhere but if someone (and they did) regularly said mine wrong I'd not correct them all the time (life's too short)

YANBU it’s your accent and they need to get over it. My mum always pronounced the words look, cook, book exactly how you’ve described snd there’s a Brooke in our family and no one would have batted an eyelid if she were here today. And honestly we don’t even know where that came from with her because she’s from Cheshire not somewhere you’d expect someone to say those words that way!

It’s a London/ mid Atlantic pronunciation. I listen to book review programmes and I would say boook as I’m Scottish but Londoners (possibly wanting to be cooool) and Americans say Buk

When you say u sound, do you mean uh or u as in ooo? 🫠😁

I'm from county Durham. Up near Stanley would say Broook with an ewk sound but down my way, it'd definitely be Bruh-k ....I think.

Anyway, as you were. Everyone should just say stuff in their own accent otherwise we'd all have to practice names in cockney, east mids, Liverpool, Durham, Newcastle..... Haha. So silly. It's be like we're taking the piss.

Where I live in the Midlands...they say names totally different to me. E.g. Kyle to me is one sound...like mile. Here it's Kye-yull or my-yull. I didn't study the local accent as a condition of living here and nobody has forced me to say their name in a fake mids accent. . 😁

Definitely Look, Brook, Cook and f🦆 duck would all work for a limerick here.👀🙄

@Vynalbob good to know. I concur 😄

This thread is mad.

How many times??!!

Think of how a Yorkshire person says truck. It rhymes with how a Southerner says book.

How can you not know that some people say bath, grass and giraffe in different ways??!

How many times??!!
Think of how a Yorkshire person says truck. It rhymes with how a Southerner says book

Yes I know, it's been pointed out to me multiple times.
That's the opposite way round. There's still no evidence of anyone with a Southern or Scottish accent saying Brooke like truck.

Surely you'd be more inclined to take the Michael 😁

Ignore this it was meant as a quote for another.

I’m ftom the South West and no one here would say Brucke , or Brooooke with the elongated ooooh sounds in the middle.
We say Brooke as in Brooke Shields. You can hear correct pronunciation on utube.

Definitely think it’s a regional accent thing as others have said. It’s like Bath pronounced Baath (like baa sheep) and Bath rhyming it with faff.

I don’t think anyone is asking anyone to “change their accent”. I see this more like the word Greenwich. It looks like you’d say it green-witch, and it would be understandable if you said it like that, until you found out it’s more gren-itch. Once you know it’s gren-itch then you should say it like that. No one is asking you to say it like a Londoner, just the correct pronunciation, not a different accent.
I heard of a place called Mersea today. I’d say mer-sea, but when people were saying it it was more mer-zee. Now I know, I’ll say mer-zee.

I’m from the North East, I live down south and have done for over 25 years, and would pronounce as you do.
This makes me mad and offended.
It would be impossible for me to pronounce any other way. And I wouldn’t.
I’ve had my own name pronounced in many different ways depending on where the ‘pronouncer’ comes from and it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. In fact I enjoy it.
I think they are being very unreasonable to demand you change yourself to suit them. They are basically telling you to deny your roots and heritage. Heaven help the child that grows up with no understanding that there are people from all areas/cultures/countries who will pronounce their name differently.
Would they demand someone French/ Spanish/ Indian/ Turkish and so on change the way they say it? Hmmm I don’t think so.

Keep being you and stuff them all.

Seriously! Daughter wants to get a life!