How is Rookwood actually pronounced?

Is it Rook like a babbling brook or Rook like a crowing rooster?

 

Hmmmmm.......I pronounce them both the same?

 

Hi,
So do I but I'm from the PA/WV border.
greg

 

I live 10 miles of Boston.........

 

b.....rook

 

Is that b as in Brook or b as an option b?

I forgot about accents.
Roof as in ooh lala or roof as in hoof
Ah! Hoof is another.
Boo! As in a ghostly boo!

Does that one work for everyone? lol

 

Rook rhymes with hook.

 

take your pick:
http://www.pronouncekiwi.com/Rookwood

 

I think the answer is: yes.

 

Rhymes with brook, look, hook, book, etc

 

Rookwood was named after the estate where Maria Longworth Nichols Storer lived. It, in turn, was named after the crows that roosted on the property. Consequently, however you pronounce rook the bird would be how you pronounce the first part of Rookwood. For me, rhymes with hook would be the correct way. Have never heard the term rook associated with a crowing rooster. Always just a crow.

 

Here in the UK we would pronounce it Ruckwood.

 

Same as Rook in Chess. { rokh }

 

Same as Rook in Chess. { rokh }

 

b as in brook or took

 

Oh God.................................................................

 

OOk, as a primatologist friend used to say.