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?

But not in mine, where they're all quite flat, no pronounced oo.

So the thread will go round in circles forever, depending where each poster originates from.

Here’s another way of looking at it. If an author introduced themselves and their book as “Brooke Smith - author of The Book that Shook with a Hook” and you repeated it back to them, are you supposed to try and mimic their accent for their name only but not the rest of the book title? And if so, why?

I'm confused by the Bruck pronunciation tbh but never mind.
As far as I'm concerned you personally should pronounce the name Brooke to rhyme with the way you personally pronounce 'rook' or 'look', etc. If they don't like your regional accent, that's tough.
When I go to France the way locals say my name is delightful. I wouldn't dream of correcting them. They're just (inadvertently) giving it a local twist.

They should get over themselves. And explain regoonal accents to little Brook.
What'll happen when they meet a Scouser!

I always struggled with Dougie when I lived in Scotland. Duggie in my accent and I'd feel idiotic saying Doo ghee like the Scots but it's very different. Then again Dougray Scott the actor...I would say doo gray 🤔

Never heard this name pronounced Bruck, why didn't they spell it like that it the first place as people Will always say it wrong.

To be fair, the “duggie” pronunciation makes more sense as we don’t say Dooglas for the full name!

However every Scot of a certain age knows Dougie Donnelly!

“Dougray” always seemed like a made up name to me, never met one in real life.

If they meet a scouser, she'll be Bruck, just as they want. That's how scousers say it!

Just looked it up. Dougray is his middle name, and it follows the common Scottish tradition of being his Mum’s maiden surname. (My Granny’s middle name was McCurdy!)

So it’s not a standard first name. This actually has made me think - in general, I think that people are a bit more receptive to asking/being told how to pronounce surnames because there are so many which have alternate pronunciations that are just a matter of family choice. Think Smyth - I know two people called this, one says it Smith, the other says “Smeye-th. Less assumption that surnames follow standard rules.

My dad is a Douglas in Scotland, but he’s both Duggie and Doogie to his Scottish pals, just seems to be personal preference! I’ve also never met a Dougray!

How can people still be confused by the 'Bruck' thing? It's been explained about 20 times on this thread!

Because there are a lot of posters who simply cannot get their head around the fact that people living on the same island as them, or even an hour up the road, speak differently.

I'm in the Midlands, I'd pronounce it as Bruck. If I were 20 miles north, in Stoke, it would be an ooh sound

I was at grammar school in Liverpool . I had a pronounced scouse accent but in our first year we had elocution lessons and were taught that the correct pronunciation of book took look etc IS with the oo sound not u sound . We had lots of rhymes to learn and I can remember a couple of these from the 1960s .

I was at grammar school in Liverpool also, in the mid-late 70s, but as long as our grammar was good, our accents were never modified, so I'm buk, tuk, luk. I don't have a strong accent now, but I still sound slightly Liverpudlian.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL7RwYys7c4/?igsh=c3MzZzFmbzBwNzh5

happened to see this today. Nice demo of variable vowel sounds.

I have an American friend named Kara. I thought for months, until I saw it written down, she was 'Kerah' as a couple of English colleagues were pronouncing it like 'Care-a' as she did. I asked her if she wanted us to pronounce it like she did and she didn't at all - she found it funny that we used her accent and not our own for her name when we didn't used 'Jeck' for Jack or 'Mardin' for Martin. I certainly wouldn't mimic an eg Yorkshire or Welsh accent when saying a name even if that's how they speak. It's really not at all awful that people use their own accent when saying names. I know two Marias - one a 'Mar-ee-ah' and one a 'Mar-eye-ah' and I say each in their preferred way but in my own accent. It's not rude at all.

Brooke rhymes with truck for me too and I’m half Lincolnshire and half Brummie. so midlands basically 🤣

I had the reverse - DS had a nursery teacher in Toronto who I thought for years was called Donna in a drawling Canadian accent.

Turns out it really was “Dawna” (apparently fairly common Canadian variant of Dawn).

Well I'm Scottish so yes I do say it like that! See also would = wid.