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?

This. Op says it rhymes with truck, but which her accent the u in truck would become the Oo sound that many accents use for book.

Like this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zHCBNqsOSdw&pp=ygUhSG93IHRvIHByb25vdW5jZSB0cnVjayBpbiBlbmdsaXNo

It would be Bruck in my accent because Brooke, book, buck, look, luck etc all rhyme and sound exactly the same

Geordie living in Surrey here, thats wierd to me that theyre saying mispronounciation as it is an accent thing, though also not hard to just call her Bruck after hearing it. I have a southern twang after 20 years in Surrey but still say book and cook with an oo, however always said look with a "uck" sound, as did all other Geordies I know. Unless they live in South they won't hear much Bruck pronunciation, north of York will be the long oo sound predominantly.

I'm surprised they're tetchy, happens to loads of names, my husband doesn't care his name sounds different when my parents say it versus his parents, and my name sounds different in South too, big deal eh!

This clarifies what they want OP
they want short oo, oo look at a book not oo poo at the zoo.
It's not an uh sound it's just a short oo.

I used to live in the north east so get it doesn't fit naturally in the accent, but if it's her name it's worth trying

That. If you can say wood, you can say Brooke. Forget how the name is spelled, just listen to the sound and repeat it.

I'm with you OP. In my Scottish accent it would definitely be BrOOke. I'd feel ridiculous putting on a fake accent to say Bruck.

IMO mispronouncing a name, especially when you know it’s wrong, is a very different thing from pronouncing everyday words with a local accent.

To me it would indicate what my DF would have called a ‘bolshie’ attitude - not to mention deliberately disrespectful and stroppy.

IMO you are being unreasonable since they’ve told you how it’s actually pronounced and you’re using your idiolect as a reason why you’re not pronouncing it correctly?

Many accents pronounce book with the same sound as in moon though.

I'd just tell them it's my accent and they can like it or lump it.

I think part of the problem is that you're saying these "uck" words in your accent.

Brooke is pronounced Brooke (like a brook, rhymes with crook) regardless of regional accent.

If the parents wanted her name to be pronounced Bruck, they should have named her Bruck.

I have no idea what they are talking about. They are being unreasonable!

I’m a Geordie and used to teach in another part of the country. I once taught a Brooke and I did pronounce it Bruck, just because that’s what all her friends called her and would’ve been strange for me to pronounce it differently.
I also once taught a Noor which I had to change my pronunciation for (instead of rhyming with poor, I pronounced it to rhyme with pour as that’s what the child & other children did!)
I think it’s different in this situation though as I was always in front of a group of 30 children.
However if they’ve asked you to pronounce it Bruck then I think fair enough, just do it.

I think (again happy to be corrected if I am wrong) it's not that Geordies would pronounce 'book' like 'buck' would be pronounced with an RP accent. It's the other way around - they would pronounce 'buck' as 'book'.

Not everybody uses the 'u' sound that is in RP accents. 'Luck' would rhyme with the way someone with an RP accent would say 'took' or 'shook'.

Then they should have called the child Bruck.

It is nothing to do with accents. I'm from London, married to a Geordie and live in Yorkshire. We would all pronounce the name Brooke as in look.

Are they dyslexic or trying to be "different"?

Is the child at school? I suspect that when they say they are called Bruck people will spell it accordingly and not Brooke.

*HotCrossBunplease *
I get the 'bewk' thing completely!
I'm writing a book and my friend from Lancashire always asks "how's the bewk coming along?'

As a person from the Midlands, I can most definitely say that buck/book and luck/look do not sound the same.

In some accents, e.g. Newcastle, book is pronounced like "Boo" with a k on the end.

In some accents, e.g. Yorkshire, book and buck are pronounced very similarly (they sound the same to my southern English ears - like how I'd pronounce book).

In some accents, e.g. southern English, book and buck are pronounced very differently.

It's not good anyone saying "it should be pronounced like truck or luck or Bruck " because different accents pronounce them differently!

It would not bother me that someone from Newcastle pronounced the name Brooke to rhyme with book in their accent.

OP knows exactly what they want as she has heard them say it to her! She’s not even struggling to make the sound. Where she is struggling is in representing that sound in writing given the wide range of accents in the Mumsnet audience.

It’s pronounced brʊk as in book. Not bruck. No one pronounces book as buck. The ʊ sound is different to the ʌ vowel sound.

I assume the OP is pronouncing it brewk.

Some people from south of England pronounce book as halfway between book and buck.

I have a Welsh name and I don't make people say it in Welsh - I do however insist that they don't use a long 'a' vowel sound because that's an incorrect pronunciation. Names are important, they are identity, it's basic respect to pronounce someone's name according to their preference.

This thread is sending my blood pressure sky high. The sheer level of ignorance about the way people who live three or four hours up the road from them speak is bonkers.

Yes, many people pronounce book and buck the same.