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Grammar pedants - help please.

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macca 53 16 Mar 5:06pm, 16 Mar 2025 33,328 posts	Quote Pin macca 53 It seems that ook and oot have a mix of pronunciations (e.g. soot, and almost all the ook words); most others seem to have a single accepted pronunciation by my non-scientific review!
Northern Exile 16 Mar 5:26pm, 16 Mar 2025 10,912 posts	Quote Pin Northern Exile Where I was brought up in the Midlands the vowels of book/cook were invariably pronounced long as in souk. However, I've lived in Yorkshire for the greater part of my life and I pronounce book to rhyme with duck nowadays, it only took 30 years to effect the change
sallykate 17 Mar 7:40pm, 17 Mar 2025 16,694 posts	Quote Pin sallykate Enjoying watching something on ITV (Protection) but disturbed by one of the opening credits: "Inspired from an idea by..." Surely inspired by, not inspired from.
paulcook 17 Mar 7:46pm, 17 Mar 2025 7,627 posts	Quote Pin paulcook macca 53 wrote:paulcook wrote:T'is t'book I wa' on about. “Were on about” for Lancashire folk and book not rhyming with duck! Book - and cook more to the point ! - both definitely rhyme with duck!! Though I've definitely grown up with both pronunciations in common local usage.
paulcook 17 Mar 7:47pm, 17 Mar 2025 7,628 posts	Quote Pin paulcook sallykate wrote:Enjoying watching something on ITV (Protection) but disturbed by one of the opening credits: "Inspired from an idea by..." Surely inspired by, not inspired from. Both the ablative case anyway. 😉
LindsD 17 Mar 8:00pm, 17 Mar 2025 73,239 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Eek Sally
Northern Exile 17 Mar 8:05pm, 17 Mar 2025 10,933 posts	Quote Pin Northern Exile Ablative?? What is this devilry you speak of?? Caesar si viveret, ad renum dareis
Dvorak 17 Mar 8:08pm, 17 Mar 2025 28,625 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Isn't an ablative something for a dicky ticker?
Northern Exile 17 Mar 8:09pm, 17 Mar 2025 10,934 posts	Quote Pin Northern Exile No, it's something you drink when you're not getting enough fibre.
sallykate 17 Mar 8:29pm, 17 Mar 2025 16,695 posts	Quote Pin sallykate paulcook wrote:sallykate wrote:Enjoying watching something on ITV (Protection) but disturbed by one of the opening credits: "Inspired from an idea by..." Surely inspired by, not inspired from. Both the ablative case anyway. 😉 Well indeed - ablative by with or from, dative to or for (from my distant O level Latin memories).