Brooke and Reece. your comments please

[Leanne1989]

Brooke- girl
Reece -boy
this is my first child due start of april just wondered what you thought of these names

Leanne1989 please don't name her Brooke unless you want this discussion

Great names

Fook, what happens if you pronounce it Bruck?

It will hold no truck

Brooke rhymes with fuck in my accent. As does book. And, indeed, duck.

dh who is from Nottingham sometimes pronounces book and butcher like 'buck' and 'buttcher'

pmsl

I think you might want to reconsider Leanne!

And Reece just looks like you couldn't spell Rhys.

Reece's pieces, so nice for your nieces!

Not in mine. No sirree.

Choose names you like and never ask anybody's opinion.

Rhys is very nice though.

Laughing because my accent started life like botbots but has drifted south as I have, so this one's got me in a right pickle!

Sometimes it's barth, and some it's bath (like faff).

Very confusing for my DC's, who are similarly bi-accented

I'm in the south too, desperately trying to hang onto vestiges of accent after 18 years!

dd gets confused - she says 'barth' when talking to (southern) dp and 'bath' when talking to me. And despite her having a south-east london accent, she still says 'Mummy' with a northern one.

Rhys is nice, Brooke less so IMHO. Brooke sounds "chavvy" (sorry to use that word, I know it is hated on these boards, sorry if any of you have little Brookes xx).

and are you bott bott, or bobo, a la francais?

Don't like either. sorry

i love rhys for a boy its in my list atm xxx

Brooke is horrible sounds really harsh
Reece should be spelt Rhys to make it OK

I like Brooke - doesn't sound like fuck where I am from. It's pretty and a nature name

not my cup of tea tbh....

I'm confused now, I definitely don't have an ey up me doook accent, but I think that duck and book rhyme.

Brooke rhymes with duck, as well as fuck imo.

but what the brooke do I know?!!

LadyLiffey - they don't rhyme - you must have a funny accent!

Are you very posh?

they dont rhyme where i coem from

I have a perfect accent.

ladyliffey i totally agree with you, brooke rhymes with book, fuck and duck and truck.
i'm from the midlands so def not posh.

I'm from South Dublin and I speak the best English in the English-speaking World. I can confirm with equal certainty and modesty that Brooke and Fuck rhyme.