Mysterious autograph on a Mookie Blaylock shirt

[B]

Is Mookie pronounced with an oooh sound? If so, why isn’t it pronounced like cookie or Wookiee?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Wtf b

[Jorge]

Is Mookie pronounced with an oooh sound? If so, why isn’t it pronounced like cookie or Wookiee?

What?

[B]

Cookie is pronounced ku kee
Wookiee is pronounced wu kee

but Mookie is pronounced mü kee ??

I know it's a dumb and pointless question, but I don't think it deserves a WTF!

[Buby]

Cookie is pronounced ku kee
Wookiee is pronounced wu kee

but Mookie is pronounced mü kee ??

I know it's a dumb and pointless question, but I don't think it deserves a WTF!

I've been pronouncing Mookie wrong all my life

[B]

Are you saying it mu kee? B/c my wife did that, and I was like, “What the fuck did you just say?”

[Matters]

So it’s like a hundred other inconsistencies in the English language. Except Mookie is a name. Let’s respect that. He wore #10.

[Jorge]

From everything I'm seeing online the Mookie in Mookie Blaylock rhymes with cookie

[B]

Well, shit. I’ve always said. Moo key.

[Jaeti]

Casting a vote for "Moo-key" here. I was born in Tulsa, parents and family are OU fans, so I was aware of the college basketball player Mookie Blaylock before Pearl Jam was even a band.

Also:

[coptheriotact]

[Jorge]

Well, shit. I’ve always said. Moo key.

I'm still not sure how this is different! Is this about which syllable is emphasized?

[Jorge]

Wait I think I get it now. Maybe I've been mispronouncing cookie this whole time

[LoathedVermin72]

It's moo-key and cook-eee

[Jorge]

When you guys say the word "cookie", does the "cook" sound closer to "cuck"?

I pronounce it closer to how the Cookie Monster pronounces it

[LoathedVermin72]

Pronounced like "cooking." So yeah closer to "cuck," I guess, but not quite. Hard to type out phonetically.

[Jorge]

This may be an ESL thing.

[96583UP]

English is a pretty whack language

there are tons of exceptions to every rule

it's basically a bunch of one-offs you have to memorize