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?

See that's what I'd do.

Though in wales there are sounds I do struggle to reproduce - in in my defence I do have mangled langauge center dyslexia/processing issues- though can't think of any in people's names and do try.

I’m from the south and there’s no halfway sound. There’s 3 different sounds here, book, buck and then a long oo as in food. Those 3 words all sound very different to each other.

But they are the same in some accents, I'm also from the NE (Durham) and the oo in book is the same as the u in buck. It's the exact same sound

One more try: if I say aloud ‘I took a look at Luke and his hook while reading a book’ all those words rhyme in my accent. So does ‘I’m in the wood in a bad mood because I forgot my hood like anyone could’.

Yes but each of you will make a different sound when you say “look”!

Brook/Brooke sounds like same as bruck look, luck, fuck, duck, muck and book in my accent.

Some people from Lancashire would say Cook and Book like Luke and Buke. I've never heard them say "Brooke" but presumably those with different oo sounds would pronounce it the same way, which is fine. It's their accent!

Haha I once tried to put on what I thought was an English accent when helping DS to learn lines for a play. He begged me to stop because he said it sounded as if I was on drugs.

I'm really astounded by some of the people on here claiming never to have heard people pronouncing words in a different way to theirs. Even if you've never travelled outside the area where you grew up, have you never met anyone from elsewhere in the country? Colleagues, friends, whatever? Do you live in a tiny village where nobody is allowed in who isn't local? Have you never watched any form of media - TV, radio, films - that featured speakers with anything other than your own regional accent? I mean, I grew up in (and still live in) an area of Yorkshire that's pretty much the opposite of diverse and even I managed to encounter people from outside the county in my 45 years on the planet. Or maybe you just don't listen to other people?

Buck, look, cook, and brook are all rhyming words and pronounced exactly the same way

Guess what?

People don't all pronounce "brook" and "crook" the same way!

I do. Book and buck are the same in my accent. I had this at college when a tutor liked my pararhyme which to me was a perfect rhyme.

Your bubbling blood does me good.

If I try a rhotic r type sound I just end up a pirate

No, in many accents they are not.

I don't pronounce buck to rhyme with cook.

Sharon from Little Bigsworth in Surrey in total shock right now.

@HotCrossBunpleasein Sunderland it would be pronounced like that. So Brooke would be pronounce Br-ew-k

Yes they do! Why do people keep insisting no one pronounces book and buck the same? It's the exact same word with different spellings in my accent (like there and their)

A name is different though. Even if the way it's spelled means you would normally use the sound that your accent uses, with a name you go by its sound.

I have friends of other nationalities and languages, and I taught children from all kinds of ethnicities. I have always ensured that I say their names the way that they do (or as close as it's possible to get). Sometimes it's needed a bit of practice (I really struggled with mid word rhotic R's) , but there's no excuse for not trying.

Why not pretend her name is spelled “bruck” then job done

Buck and book are the same in Yorkshire. I cant even imagine how they are different so it's not true to say no one pronounces book as bruck. To me they are both buk.

When teaching phonics in Scotland we had to ignore the bit about the two oo sounds as they're both the same here.

My sister is called Mary - pronounced May-ray in our accent. When she lived in England people said something like "Mehree". She didn't correct them or say they were mispronouncing her name, she put it down to regional accents which it is

You understand that brook and crook sound very different in different places though? All they want is a shortened oo. As a few have said, wood tends not to morph as much as other oo words so try that sound.

It is where I come from. (East Midlands)

I’m in South Yorkshire and this is how I say these words too. Brooke definitely rhymes with Bruk here. The same as look, cook, book etc. I haven’t heard that name pronounced in any other way.

moon rhymes with swoon, loon, spoon etc.

I also say poor and pour in exactly the same way.

Interesting. The people I heard must have been from somewhere else. They tried hard to get me to say book in the same way as them - not u but not oo. My west of Scotland accent has a pronounced (no pun intended) oo sound.

This is what I don't understand. How can you not imagine how they are different? Have you never heard anyone from London speak?