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Cook, book or look
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 8:22 pm
by Dressinggown
My dad insists that the pronunciation is an 'ooo' sound if you are from East Lancashire.
I reckon he is completely wrong. I state that the double OO is pronounced as a 'U' in these parts.
Opinions?
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 8:26 pm
by ClaretTony
I pronounce it as a U but my dad used OO
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 8:36 pm
by BFCmaj
I pronounce it book but my wife says book.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:00 pm
by mdd2
Lancastrian dialect will be oook
Stone in mouth BBC English is buk
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:07 pm
by LeadBelly
I'm just luuking at mi cuke buke.
Although the corvine feathered thing is ruck rather than ruke.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:23 pm
by ChrisG
My dad used to say book and cook with a double O sound, but look was more like luck.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:25 pm
by DingleDangle
I'm Burnley born n bred and I say buk, cuk and luk.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 8:42 am
by bfcjg
Agree with op,it's buk ,luk,cuk,. I think it makes being a Burnley fan so much easier when describing the referee's performances ....ing useless again.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:14 am
by BigAlClaret
It varies all over the county and in fact around East Lancs itself.Over the years as families mix and move so does this pronunciation and both are equally used and correct. However for me it's always Turf Moor (more) as opposed to say Preston's Moor (moo-er) Park.
Slightly off topic how do the locals of Bury pronounce their town name?
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:19 am
by roperclaret
Definitely Cuk buk luk. The further west you go it turns into cuke buke luke until you end up scouse
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:31 am
by Aclaret
roperclaret wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:19 am
Definitely Cuk buk luk. The further west you go it turns into cuke buke luke until you end up scouse
.....and then it's, Luke, Everton have cuked the bukes !......allegedly.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:03 am
by quoonbeatz
BigAlClaret wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:14 am
It varies all over the county and in fact around East Lancs itself.Over the years as families mix and move so does this pronunciation and both are equally used and correct. However for me it's always Turf Moor (more) as opposed to say Preston's Moor (moo-er) Park.
Slightly off topic how do the locals of Bury pronounce their town name?
Depends which part of Bury you’re from.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:37 am
by ElectroClaret
Berry.....or Burry
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:03 am
by bobinho
Burnley born and bred, it’s buk, cuk and luk.
My old man was a Darrener, and he said boook, coook and loook. Weirdo…
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:12 am
by Bosscat
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:19 am
by bodge
It's Berry and I'm from the posh part of Bury.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:23 am
by Pearcey
Not like ‘snoop’, like ‘good’ but I’m from Kent.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:50 am
by groove
BigAlClaret wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:14 am
It varies all over the county and in fact around East Lancs itself.Over the years as families mix and move so does this pronunciation and both are equally used and correct. However for me it's always Turf Moor (more) as opposed to say Preston's Moor (moo-er) Park.
Slightly off topic how do the locals of Bury pronounce their town name?
I also pronounce moor as more, but plural I'd say moo-ers. As in the moo-ers murderers.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:52 am
by groove
Cuk buk and luk raised in Accy.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:55 am
by GordonvaleClaret
ChrisG wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:23 pm
My dad used to say book and cook with a double O sound, but look was more like luck.
Am wi yer dad.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:43 pm
by addisclaret
ClaretTony wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 8:26 pm
I pronounce it as a U but my dad used OO
Exactly the same, when I moved back up here with the kids, one of the first questions was why does Grandad say book like that?
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:48 pm
by Lip
Bus or Buz is another one to ponder on. My friends from the Dark side(blackburn) say Buz .
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:51 pm
by ClaretTony
Lip wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:48 pm
Bus or Buz is another one to ponder on. My friends from the Dark side(blackburn) say Buz .
Buz is very much used in large parts of Lancashire but we escaped that just as we have (h)air on our heads (well some of us do) and not (h)err.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:23 pm
by Wile E Coyote
pronouncing it with the "oo" is Blackburn area, Burnley use the "U" sound .
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:26 pm
by FCBurnley
Only in Burnley would you say Cuk us tea
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:40 pm
by quoonbeatz
bodge wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:19 am
It's Berry and I'm from the posh part of Bury.
More beret round your end innit?
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2024 6:48 am
by NottsClaret
Childhood memory of going to Farnworth to see family and they all say ‘boook’ and ‘loook’. Definitely a Bolton thing. ‘Buz’ is common in Rossendale too, must have only just dodged that nonsense.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:43 am
by ArmchairDetective
Agree with those above. To me Burnley has always said book and cook as buck and cuck. It changes to ook as you head a little west towards the botherers.
Re: Cook, book or look
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2024 8:35 am
by dougcollins
Buck and cuck over the border in Yorks too. It's definitely a more western thing.
