Scottish people, how do you pronounce this please..

[MaggieNilAonSneachta]

Keep suggesting the name Gregor to people even though I just realised I'm not 100% how it's pronounced!

Is it

1. Graygore
   
2. Greggur
   
   I am saying it like 1 in my head but then I realised Ewan McGregor's sur name is said like Greggur.

[MrsWainwright]

More like the second but also Gregg-ore

[FromGirders]

It's 2.
Don't even think about 1, unless you're from Morningside.

[MaggieNilAonSneachta]

I should have done

3) Greggore!

thanks

[expatinscotland]

there's a boy in DD2's nursery called this and everyone says it 'greg-urr'.

[expatinscotland]

Western Scotland here.

[MaggieNilAonSneachta]

so it's like greggore or greggurr.

this is the way with celtic names. some people say usheen, some say osheen (oisin)

[giraffesCantWalkInSnow]

I had no idea Gregor was such a Scottish name!

[MaggieNilAonSneachta]

Can you explain from girders?! i'm not having any more children but I like this name. I'm not in Scotland so it seems very exotic to me. lol

[MaggieNilAonSneachta]

Can you explain fromgirders?! i'm not having any more children but I like this name. I'm not in Scotland so it seems very exotic to me. lol

[expatinscotland]

Morningside is an upper-class neighbourhood in Edinburgh, Maggie.



It's a loooonnngg way from us yokels in the Heilans' .

[MaggieNilAonSneachta]

Ah. I think I understand you. Upper-class like say..... Tooting?

[expatinscotland]

Where is Tooting?

It's upper class as in JK Rowling used to live there near Alexander McCall Smith and Fred the Shred Goodwin had a house there.

[FimBOW]

Greg gur

[drloves8]

its greg-ore if your posh , or greg- gur if your un-posh.

[expatinscotland]

'its greg-ore if your posh , or greg- gur if your un-posh.'

I'm foreign, not 'posh' and I'd have pronounced it the former if I hadn't heard someone say it first.

[Aelfwyn]

I'm Scottish AND posh and I've never heard of anyone saying anything other than 'Greggur'!

[waitingforbedtime]

Greggur definitely

[MrsWainwright]

I know one in London pronounced Gregg-ore.

Gregg-ur rolls off the tongue better.

I guess it's a bit like Eleanor. I know an El-en-err and an El-en-orr.

[Pingpong]

definitely number 2 as in Ewan McGregor the number 1 suggestion makes me giggle a lot! And they wouldn't even pronounce it like that in Morningside, Kelvinside maybe

[Pingpong]

thought Fred lived in the Grange not Morningside
fred's house trashed

[hf128219]

It's Greggur.

Morningside is wannabe posh!

[drloves8]

morningside is wannabe posh ! lol
love the name gregor btw. tis manly!

[littlemissfixit]

greggur sounds better to me, although when i say gregor its sounds really daft cause i'm galloway irish (south west scotland)

[sweetkitty]

I know a Gregor prounounced Greg-OOOOOOORRREEEEE by his Mum and Greggur by everyone else

[MaggieNilAonSneachta]

galloway irish? never heard that term!