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Or nook (rhymes with book)? At work I say nuck, but most others say nook, so I'd like to get to the bottom of this!

• dmvdoug 3y ago
  Now I’m imagining your coworkers talking about getting nookie.
• vxNsr 3y ago
  Wait, zuck and book rhyme, how are nook and nuck different?
  • tomsmeding 3y ago
    zUck https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_central_vowel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_central_vowel bOOk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_rounded_vowel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_rounded_vowel
    • vxNsr 3y ago
      Must be a midwestern accent thing, I don’t pronounce book, “boooook” (as in what a ghost with a cough says)
      • smolder 3y ago
        Book/nook are not as in boo/goo, but they're also not the same as in buck/Zuck. This is not a Midwestern thing. I can't recall ever meeting a native US english speaker for whom these vowel sounds weren't distinct. Probably in some accents they blur together.
      • saltcured 3y ago
        Rather, I think some may be rhyming Zuck with buck which does not rhyme with book. Edit: oops, smolder said the same thing but I was reading a stale page without the reply...
      • dmvdoug 3y ago
        Here are some pairs of words to show they don’t rhyme: Pluck / took Duck / rook Suck / shook