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How do you pronounce Book

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  • 29-06-2006 10:39pm
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    NADA
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    People in Drogheda say boo-k but people nearly in Balbriggan say Buck? Which is right?


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    Gone West
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    rhyme with hook, not puke


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    LovelyHurling
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    Its Bukes!


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    Talliesin
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    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.


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    petes
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    Booooook.


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    FlutterinBantam
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    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


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    simu
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    Cartwheel


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    Creamy Goodness
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    book to rhyme with hook. any other way is just culchie :p


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    simu
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    Cremo wrote:
    book to rhyme with hook. any other way is just culchie :p

    Pfft, no self-respecting culchie would say byook.


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


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    simu
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    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?


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    Karoma
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    Tar.Aldarion
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    Ouch Karoma.


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


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    Ruu_Old
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    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". :)


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


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    Bard
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    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! ]


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    mike65
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    Bouk (short ou)

    Mike.


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    Easca
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    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.


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