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Scottish people, how do you pronounce this please..

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MaggieNilAonSneachta · 19/01/2010 14:21

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.

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CurlyCasper · 20/01/2010 16:16

However you would say Greg, followed by however you would say the word "Or".

If you speed it up, in many areas you'll get the "ur" sound, but IMO, with this name anything that requires an E on the end when talking pronunciation is a bit pretentious

say what you see!

FromGirders · 19/01/2010 21:53

Hence my "posh" being in inverted commas - hadn't thought of Nouveau as an insult description.

hf128219 · 19/01/2010 20:33

No, no it's not posh. It's Nouveau.

FromGirders · 19/01/2010 18:59

Sorry, have been working. Morningside is v "posh" area of Edinburgh, with a quite peculiar accent, so that sacks becomes "sex" "quite" becomes "quate" etc. Think Hyacinth Bucket Bouquet
I'm not from there, obviously. And it may all be an urban myth

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MaggieNilAonSneachta · 19/01/2010 18:40

galloway irish? never heard that term!

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sweetkitty · 19/01/2010 17:31

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

littlemissfixit · 19/01/2010 16:48

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

drloves8 · 19/01/2010 16:48

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

hf128219 · 19/01/2010 16:35

It's Greggur.

Morningside is wannabe posh!

Pingpong · 19/01/2010 16:30

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

Pingpong · 19/01/2010 16:27

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

MrsWainwright · 19/01/2010 15:17

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.

waitingforbedtime · 19/01/2010 15:05

Greggur definitely

Aelfwyn · 19/01/2010 15:03

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

expatinscotland · 19/01/2010 14:54

'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.

drloves8 · 19/01/2010 14:52

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

FimBOW · 19/01/2010 14:39

Greg gur

expatinscotland · 19/01/2010 14:38

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.

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MaggieNilAonSneachta · 19/01/2010 14:37

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

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expatinscotland · 19/01/2010 14:32

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

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

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MaggieNilAonSneachta · 19/01/2010 14:31

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

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MaggieNilAonSneachta · 19/01/2010 14:31

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

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giraffesCantWalkInSnow · 19/01/2010 14:27

I had no idea Gregor was such a Scottish name!

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MaggieNilAonSneachta · 19/01/2010 14:26

so it's like greggore or greggurr.

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

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expatinscotland · 19/01/2010 14:25

Western Scotland here.