I think I need to call ICE and turn myself in. I’m from somewhere like Barbados, New Zealand, Uruguay or Italy…I’ve been living in the US for sooooo long that my English is practically perfect. Please deport me. My home country misses my economic contributions.
It’s literally how you (as in Americans) pronounce it when you say buoyant or buoyancy, but for some reason you go wild when pronouncing buoy.
If I had to guess it’s due to the fact that a word pronounced like boy already exists. Never really thought about it before though.
I’m not sure if it was the pronunciation in all of the UK or just in parts of it, but historically there was also a “bwoy” pronunciation. I could imagine the American “boo-ee” descending from that