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?

Surely it’s neither? It doesn’t rhyme with truck!

I suppose you only refer to Par-ee and not Par-iss, then?

The name Brooke has multiple "correct" pronunciations, depending on where you come from. There isn't one true way to pronounce it.

That's really weird! It should rhyme with cook, look, book etc.

I get this as a Northerner living in the South, sometimes - I just CAN'T say, for example, Alex-aaahnder instead of saying it with the second syllable the same as the word "and". I'd feel ludicrous, like I was doing a terrible impression of the King or something. People don't care that you don't say graaahs or paaaahs or baaahth etc, but once in a while you meet someone who gets snippy when it's their name.

It does for some people because in their accent truck rhymes with book so therefore also rhymes with Brooke

Again, as has been said several times on the thread book, buck, look, luck all rhyme in some accents

Some (many) of the comments on this thread really are amazing. Like people have never heard a Northern accent, or a Southern one, or a rhotic or non-rhotic. So many demonstrating that they haven't understood what the OP is saying: that in her accent, book and look are bewk and lewk, to rhyme with Luke / Duke. Who don't seem to know that some people have short vowels (glass to rhyme with ass, or glaahs to rhyme with a non-rhotic arse). I mean, even if they never visit other parts of the country, do they never watch TV or listen to the radio or anything? The days when everyone on the telly spoke RP are long gone. I just can't understand it.

Exactly. Totally baffling!

Yes, of course, because a person from Yorkshire would pronounce 'truck' to rhyme with 'look'. Do people honestly not know this?

I’m not even sure it’s about accents so much though. I’ll give myself as an example - my name is Rhian - not short for anything, it’s a name in its own right. I don’t insist people pronounce it the Welsh way - lots of people don’t speak Welsh.

But it’s absolutely 100% not pronounced Ree-Anne under any circumstances. For 46 years I have had to say to people - it’s like ‘Ian’ with an ‘R’ (it’s not but it is close enough) Ree-Un. Never Ree-Anne - it’s culturally fairly insensitive to not even bother pronouncing the English version of my name. Am I the arsehole? I don’t think so.

Yes, of course, because a person from Yorkshire would pronounce 'truck' to rhyme with 'look'. Do people honestly not know this

Omg how many times yes i know!!! But it's the other way around!

No, I don't think you're the arsehole at all - that sounds fine. But I think all the hundreds of people on here talking about what's "correct" and talking about what rhymes with what without any apparent awareness that what rhymes with what can vary, in different accents are - well, shall we say, showing their ignorance.

Yes I do think I see what you mean. Thanks for responding.

No. Because some accents have the long oooo for those words also, as has been said on this thread ad nauseam 🙄

Some say boook, some say buk, some say Broooke, some say Bruk.

100% accent and nothing more.
Like someone from somewhere towards Hull-way pronouncing Jo Nolan as Jaw Norlan.

I have the same but I get four different pronunciations and it drives me bonkers.

For the curious I'm a Nadine (yeah, I know, a hated name these days because of the Tory woman 🙄)

So I get Naddine, Naydeen, N'Deen and occasionally Nardine.

I'm actually a Naydeen, but quite happy to be referred to as the French Naddine, however I loathe the one that 90% of people call me, N'deen without any trace of the a, because It doesn't feel like my name. Nardine like Sardine doesn't happen often but just makes me laugh. I also get Nadia a fair bit.

So I'm with making an effort to say Brooke the way she wants it said, because when I was a child it really mattered to me to have my name pronounced correctly.

But if someone was to say ree-un with a Geordie accent you wouldn't insist on them saying it with a Welsh accent would you? Because that's what the op is talking about

I totally understand. I hate Ree-Anne because it’s actually really lazy and it’s not hard to to make an effort is it really? Ian with an R! Really common male name. I’m not making people try and pronounce ‘Rh’ the Welsh way. But when they can’t be bothered with the English version it feels disrespectful. In English it’s the equivalent of four letters - two syllables.

And for example, I know people named ‘Sarah’. One pronounced Sair-uh and the other Sar-uh. I pronounce their names as they prefer, because I love them and respect them.

I love the fact there's so many different accents in what is really a very small place.

I read a joke a while back that said you can drive for 2 hours in America and be in the same state whereas drive 2 hours in the uk and the local accent's changed a dozen times and bread rolls have a new name.

I live over the moors from Sheffield. Ten minutes drive and a hugely different accent.

There's so many gorgeous accents in the uk. I think my favourites are the Scottish Highlands ones that have almost a musical lilt to them. Just so soothing.

@Arlanymor ah but you're not helped by English people who name their kids Welsh names and then say them different.

I went to school with a Rhianne....it was Ree Anne according to her 🫣

No you’re right there! I remember two specific occasions of people telling me that my name should be pronounced differently - in England. No. I know how to say my name! In both languages! Also Rhianne is rather a unique spelling!

But the people saying Brooke rhymes with truck are northern English, b(ut not NE)

@MasterBeth hey don't shoot the messenger 😁

Brooke is pronounced Bruck(e) in my dialect. We have a child in DD's class called Brooke pronounced by me as Bruck . and not corrected.
Originally from Manchester and now SE, but struggling to see otherwise.

@Elsvietabook and look are oooo sounds in my accent. The next city over say lewk
and bewk in Sunderland.
So most people in Newcastle/Gateshead say Broooooke and 10 mins down the road is ewk.

@BooneyBeautiful
that is how myself and other mutual friends have pronounced it’s with the way pronounce Look and Book are until now