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 ones got an o in and ones got u, o and u are pronounced differently in phonics? I can understand people getting mixed up with the two different oo sounds but o and u aren’t the same letter.

In many people’s accents (mine included), wood and book do have the same middle sound. It would just sound like wud and buk.
I genuinely don’t know what you mean otherwise. I tend to hear boo-k (like moon) or buk. I can’t think of another way to pronounce them.

Only in a general northern accent. In the south, luck (ʌ) doesn't rhyme with book (ʊ). There are 44 sounds in the English language and the letters we write with don't clearly represent the sounds.

In Scotland these are identical so this would not be taught. Sounds like it’s the same for the Geordies too.

Yanbu but as it’s a child in question, I’d say Bruck.

Would this person pronounce Paris like a Parisian (Paree)? Would she call a Brooke from a place where the accent differs in that local accent?

Yorkshire accent here, we pronounce book as buck, wood as wud. I don’t know why some people as saying it is never pronounced this way or they have never heard it, bizarre!

Different regional accents, that's all.

No, it's just that in OP's accent "bruck" would be pronounced as an RP speaker would say "brook".

I'm sure the Geordie way should have an extra "O" in it!

It's like the word "book"...
One O - bok (rhymes with lock)
Two Os - book (as RP would say)
Three Os - boook (as Geordie would say)
😆

I am happy to be corrected if I am wrong but I think that with a Geordie accent, "luck" is going to be pronounced to rhyme with the way most British say book. I think this is why this thread is confusing.

Just to be clear OP, are they pronouncing it like Brooke Shields is pronounced here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZESc0FXBI

In any event, I think now that you know you have to make an effort to pronounce it the way she prefers.

What a confusing thread!

I can imagine the Geordie way of saying booook and cooook but surely in every other accent buck/book and wud/wood sound the same? Or at least pretty much the same.

I can’t understand these people aghast at how they have never heard such a thing…

DH is from south-west England and when we first met he gently ribbed me for my ooos, my ‘boook’ and ‘loook’. And then he moved up here and he’s the quaint one

Exactly this, and that pronunciation on the link is the only one I've ever known for Brooke.

I'm a geordie and I'd also have assumed it was Brooke with an "oo" sound. I thought that was how the name was pronounce irrespective of accent, as opposed to book, look, etc which are pronounced differently in different accents.

However, now you've been told that the pronunciation is Bruck (wtf) you need to make an effort to pronounce it the way they want.
It would be the same if it was a name like Naomi which can be pronounced in a couple of different ways (I struggle with that one because I can never remember who pronounces their name in which way)

Yes I agree wood and book have the same sound, but there’s no u in the word so a u sound doesn’t come into it. Wood doesn’t sound like wud. Wood doesn’t sound like food either. Wood, book, look isn’t different to wud, mud, bud and different to food, mood, moon. I speak with a southern/RP accent though so maybe it’s different.

As a non-Geordie teacher in Geordie land, I had a student called Brook, who I called Bruk (southern pronunciation). She wasn't bothered at all that I didn't use the ooooo sound.

The accent is irrelevant when it comes to name. You k ow how it is pronounced so pronounce it that way.

whatever accent a person has it’s not an excuse for mispronouncing a name once you’ve been corrected

I come across a lot of people with non-UK names and can struggle when reading the name but once I’ve been told I respect that it’s their name

Ask her what would happen if she went on TV and Ant and Dec introduced her. I bet she’d be alright with them saying Brooke in the Geordie way!

Wood and wud sound nothing alike in my Scottish accent. Wood rhymes with mood and food for me.

I always find it interesting on these threads how unaware so many people are about different accents in the UK.

I had 4x Geordie GP's - just call her "the bairn pronounced ben".

No, really not in a southern/RP accent. Buck and book sound very different.

Same here, from Yorkshire. I cant even imagine how to say buck, brook, book, truck, look any differently so they wouldn't rhyme. Moon and food would have a long oo sound. But I do say poor and pour differently. And also to and too differently which everyone thinks is hilarious.

The -oo sound the op is describing is close to how many people would say Luke.

In my accent, out of Luck, Luke and Look - luck and look sound the same, in other areas, look and luke would sound similar.

I'm always amazed on these threads how unaware people generally are of other people's accents.

Incidentally, my accent makes learning German difficult as I can't make the different sounds required for u versus ü

I assume I say it the way they do. It’s not like luck or truck in my accent.

Brook/book/cook have a different middle sound to moon, and different again to luck in my accent.

If someone wanted it pronounced differently to the way I was doing it, I’d do my best to do that tbh.

I always find them fascinating and sit here trying to make words Rhyme/ not Rhyme

I am from East Lancashire

Wood is pronounced wud
Book is pronounced buck
Cook is pronounced cuck
Brooke I would say Bruck