How do you pronounce scrimgeour?

[Cinderbelly]

I am currently reading the last Harry Potter book and this is really bugging me.

I struggled with hermione until I watched the first film (in my head I was reading it as her-me-on-ee) but every time I see the new minister for Magic's name my head reads it differently!
S-crime-gor?
Scrim-ee-gour? (Our like tour and like hour)
Scrim-ger? Both with a hard and soft g!

Please help I am a professional woman in my late thirties and this is driving me nuts!

seems I've been pronouncing most of the names wrong

Might have to get the audiobook for the car

Scrim-juh.

Scrim-jer, east coast of Scotland. Know a few with this name.

I love the names in Harry Potter

Common Scottish surname. Scrim-jerr.

I have a friend who has that surname. It's pronounced scrimjer.

Scrim-jehr. Had lots of lectures in the Scrim-jehr building years and years ago.

Apparently people were calling her Hermy-own

I was one of them!

Me too @Ffsnosexallowed

Along the same lines as ginger.

Common name here

All pronounce Scrim jer

Scrim-jer with 'jer' like in jurassic.

I always pronounce Merope as Meh-rope never occurred to me it would be
Meh-ro-pee like Penelope.

I also say Fi-renz (sounds a bit like how the Inbetweeners say friends)

I've known two real people with this name, and I've never heard either of them say their name themselves, but the way other people round them pronounced it was different (in different regions).

The one I knew when I was growing up in the East Midlands, people must have been saying as Scrimjaw, because I actually thought her name was Scrimshaw until I saw it written down.

The one I know now, in the South-West, seems to be called Scrimja (like ninja) by everyone.

West Coast Scotland
Probably scrim-jehr

Now Menzies - that is an interesting one

What about the Featherstones and Cholmondleys ?

Fanshaw and Chumley, although the latter used in Salford for a road is pronounced as it's written.
Always remember Belvoir is pronounced Beever

And of course , Cockburn .

i say it scrim-gee-or

with a hard g-like in goat

Good for you @Big
I will continue to say it my way too 😁
We are all individuals !
To some, a spade is a shovel.

For the longest time I mis-read scrimgeour as scrimegor and pronouncing it as if it were someone who scrimmages so now even though I know I’m wrong I can’t say it differently in my head.
In the same way I had a teacher who read Oliver Twist with me in primary school who pronounced Fagin as Fa-gun. So for years Fag-in sounded really alien to me!

OP to answer your next question, Firenze is pronounced feer-en-se (it is Italian). Although in the films they do say fuh-rens. No idea what they say in the audiobooks.

As for the death eater, there isn't one called Rudolph. Do you mean Dolohov? Or Rosier?

Although as a child I always said fi-rens for Firenze and only realised as a teenager that that was wrong. Seeing as they don't say it the italian way at all in the films I've never really kicked the habit.

This is my ex's surname and the entire family pronounce it Scrim-Gore

Although it will definitely be the Scottish version you should use with it being Harry Potter