How do you pronounce Book

NADA · 29-06-2006 9:39pm #1

People in Drogheda say boo-k but people nearly in Balbriggan say Buck? Which is right?

Gone West · 29-06-2006 9:40pm

rhyme with hook, not puke

LovelyHurling · 30-06-2006 1:24am

Its Bukes!

Talliesin · 30-06-2006 9:29am

NADA wrote:

Which is right?

What do you mean "right"? Are you striving to speak the received pronouncion? In that case it's /bʊk/, but really why on earth would you want to speak the received pronounciation all the time, even most Shakespearean productions don't bother with that any more.
Otherwise it's whatever way book is pronounced in your accent.

petes · 30-06-2006 9:32am

Booooook.

FlutterinBantam · 30-06-2006 7:06pm

pse don't call it "Boooook" Christ its "Buck"....Breaks me balls when I hear some dude on the radio calling it "beeeuwk".

Give us a break here

simu · 01-07-2006 1:33am

Cartwheel

Creamy Goodness · 01-07-2006 1:35am

book to rhyme with hook. any other way is just culchie

simu · 01-07-2006 1:37am

Cremo wrote:

book to rhyme with hook. any other way is just culchie

Pfft, no self-respecting culchie would say byook.

Ruu_Old · 01-07-2006 1:39am

I always have and will pronounce it "buke". I have heard "buck" is the correct way but meh.*shrugs*

simu · 01-07-2006 1:48am

Ruu wrote:

I always have and will pronounce it "buke". I have heard "buck" is the correct way but meh.*shrugs*

You're in the US, no? Do they understand that?

Karoma · 01-07-2006 1:52am

Tar.Aldarion · 01-07-2006 4:21am

Ouch Karoma.

I say 'buck'. To all those rhyme it with hook people, some people say hoo-keh.

Ruu_Old · 01-07-2006 4:40am

simu wrote:

You're in the US, no? Do they understand that?

I am, I get made fun of on a daily basis. Today I was talking about Van Gogh and pronounced "van-goff" and was told I was wrong, it was meant to be "van-go".

lucille · 15-07-2006 6:37am

what kind of eejit told u that?thats a /x/-sound at the end of the name

Bard · 15-07-2006 7:26am

My fiancee says "book" with the long O sound as in "root", but she's from Dundalk so that's Okay. I say it the "normal" way, - as in rhyming with "look" - and no, not "buck" - I don't get how some people can't see the subtle difference between "book" (rhyming with "look"), and "buck" (my fiancée can't, for example...)

[ Oh luke! Luke at the cuke buke I tuke off the cuke! ]

mike65 · 15-07-2006 9:22am

Bouk (short ou)

Mike.

Easca · 13-08-2006 2:06pm

Bard wrote:

My fiancee says "book" with the long O sound as in "root", but she's from Dundalk so that's Okay. I say it the "normal" way, - as in rhyming with "look" - and no, not "buck" - I don't get how some people can't see the subtle difference between "book" (rhyming with "look"), and "buck" (my fiancée can't, for example...)

[ Oh luke! Luke at the cuke buke I tuke off the cuke! ]

It depends on how you pronounce look.

How do you pronounce Book

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