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?

Hello, Bucket residence, lady of the house speaking

Is it not the difference between the long and short oo sound. I live in the south east and the way we say book and moon are examples of the short and long sound. I imagine the name as being pronounced Brooke like book as opposed to moon. Phonics is hard to write down!

Re: Books/Buck

This bloke's northern accent isn't very good but you can sort of get a sense of the difference here. He says "How much? Two books for two bucks?" in a southern and then a northern accent. It's not great though as the books in a northern accent will sound more strongly different than he has it here.

EDIT relevant bit starts at about 3.33. I tried to link it to start there but not sure it worked.

I honestly think people get too worked up these days about pronunciation of names. And I’m not just saying that because I have an “easy” to pronounce name. I have family in Scotland and Wales and my boss is South African. They all say my name very slightly differently. My FIL is the weirdest because he’s English and puts the emphasis on a weird part of the name. For example it’s like pronouncing Hannah Hanarr. In my opinion he also calls his own wife a slightly weird version of her name! For example (not her name) for Sharon he says Shar-ON rather than Shar-un. The emphasis at the end rather than the beginning. But he’s always done that. She pronounces it the way I think it should be.

My dad used to call one of my friends a weird version of his name. Again just changing where the emphasis should be. I tried to teach him but he just couldn’t seem to do it. He insisted he was saying it the same as I was.

Has anyone here seen them Swedish show The Bridge? The main character is called Saga. Her Swedish colleagues call her Sar-ga. The Danish side call her Say-ga. It’s never mentioned once. I assume it’s just how they pronounce the name in that country.

I think they are being very rude about your accent.

DH is currently in the US and manages not to have a tantrum at the fact his name is pronounced completely differently there - think Jaaaahn when he's actually called John.

Brook rhymes with Book, not Luck!

My in-laws were from the pottery area, and they would have a long ‘oo’ sound, so school would be ‘sch uuu L’

Interesting

To me (southern),those are three different sounds.

Uck - Luck/Duck/Nut

Long oo - food, mood, smooth, root

Short oo - book, cook, look put, (our northern relatives pronounce this with a long oo).

Brooke to me is the short oo sound - like Bruckner or Bruch, the composers. I have heard it pronounced with the long oo, but I don’t think I have ever heard it with the -uck sound.

ooh I love that example!

My son has the same name/same spelling as a character in the Danish show Borgen, but he is named in honour of a Norwegian relative, so we say it completely differently to the way that the Borgen characters do.

This reminds me (Scottish) of working with an American called Cara, in Australia. She was quite snotty with people pronouncing it Cara because in her American accent it was almost like Kerra. I’m Scottish and I had to make a very exaggeratedly different sound to make it vaguely acceptable to her and she seemed to have no concept of different accents.

(she was massively frustrating in lots of work-related ways so it bugged me and I didn’t feel inclined to go out of my way for her but that’s by the by)

interesting, so in the north it’s not that book sounds like truck, it’s that truck sounds like book.

We pronounce pretty much everything differently in Norn Iron. My name sounds completely different when pronounced by someone English, even the intonation. It’s not an unusual name, nor does it have a tricky spelling. But I would never take offence at how someone pronounces my name in their own accent. It’s like someone English called Kate expecting me to pronounce their name as Kayt. It just doesn’t come naturally. And it sounds a bit oo-la-la coming from the majority of us, particularly in Belfast. I don’t even know how to spell our pronunciation phonetically to make it make sense. Maybe Kee-it😃

I do.
I pronounce it bruck to rhyme with duck and book/buck, cook, look/luck truck. And yeah, fuck.
Liverpool/Lancashire accent.

This is a better example than my Garage or Scone.

If John wants it pronounced the way he likes it, the British way, he will basically have to re-educate everyone meets and get them to fake a British accent for one word. It's not going to happen is it?

So my name is Brooke and I wouldn't care if u pronounced it as brOOKe because of your accent I know the word book is pronounced like that.

In all my 36 years I have never ever been called Bruck. Like wtf? That's hideous and I wouldn't respond to that! It's Brooke as in.....Brooke lol.

How ridiculous, its Brooke not Bruck, going to spend a lot of her life, correcting everyone, who says it correctly in the first place.

There are people in the country who would say Bruck! As many people on this thread have said!

This post is the reason I couldn’t name my child Brooke. I’m a Geordie and my husband isn’t. His favourite girl’s name was Brooke. Luckily we had a boy. For me, Brooke rhymes with Luke. For my husband, Brooke rhymes with look.

But do they pronounce luck like look?
Brooke should be pronounce like book but I can understand you putting extra emphasis on the ooooo sound. It's just an accent, not sure why they are getting uppity.

So to be clear you pronounce your niece’s name to rhyme with ‘Spook’?

Because I think that’s what the OP is saying she does. Unless I’m completely misunderstanding this.

Oh that's interesting. My FIL says my husband’s name completely differently to how MIL says it, none of them have ever been remotely bothered.

I am wondering if there is confusion in the "uck" sound as up north they say ook don't they? So not duck for example but dook.

Same for us north east.

I'd pronounce Brook as bruck.

No
Duck as in luck

This. I've never in my life heard of the name BrOOOOke pronounced Bruck

Yeah but they make it more of an oo sound not uh. Like we way luhk, they say look for luck.