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View Poll Results: How do you say “book”?
Buck 14 56.00%
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Bewk 11 44.00%
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Old 17-09-2017, 05:26 PM #1
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Are there two ways of pronouncing 'food'?
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BOO
and then k

sounds like fluke

is this a silly English thing again
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Book/Cook/Brook/Shook/Hook etc (almost any word ending with “ook”)

Is pronounced with a uck sound x

E.g Buck, Cuck, Bruck, Shuck, Huck
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Absolutely wrong.
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Absolutely wrong.
But saying 'took' instead of 'tuck' isn't?
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But saying 'took' instead of 'tuck' isn't?
No, because that's the correct way to say it.
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No, because that's the correct way to say it.
So you say it like “tuke”?
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Has anyone got any audio or video evidence of book being pronounced 'buck'? I've never heard of such a thing.
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Like, can we stop this whole buck vs bewk thing because neither of them are how you actually say it ya silly sods
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Like, can we stop this whole buck vs bewk thing because neither of them are how you actually say it ya silly sods
Oh I don't actually say "bewk" irl. I just chose that one bc it's the closest option to actually being right lol.
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No pronunciation is wrong, anyway. It just depends where you're from.
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Ugh, the bullying of the superior Northern English is absolutely harrowing on here. </3
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Do you pronounce it as “buck” or “bewk”?
Neither ??? I say book like i say rook , a buck is a $ and god only knows what a bewk is ?? You livin in Lilliput ???
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Err "B-uh-k"
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Err "B-uh-k"
I love how it took 67 posts for somebody to explain what everybody was trying to explain!
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I say it in the style of Bette Midler in Hocus Pocus.
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Actually, no, thats still not quite right why is this so hard.
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I answered buck in the poll cos I say it like this.
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