Re: Pronunciation of 'chooks'?

"Susan Hogarth" <hogarth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

Susan Hogarth wrote:
Is it like 'books', or like 'ooze'?

Info on the word, though not the pronunciation:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cho2.htm

As Jill says, "chook" rhymes with book, look, took etc.

And having looked up the cite you gave, I notice that it says that it
may have a connection with an old British word "chuck". The cite then
goes on to mention the use of "Chuck" as a name. I've only ever heard
of "Chuck" being used as a ame in the US so it must be a US site.
Anyway, I thought you might be amused by another Australian word
usage. Chuck is a word for vomiting in Australia as in "I was so sick
that I did a big chuck".


.