Ruairi correct pronunciation?

[Mushypea888]

Our new baby is to be called ruairi but we have heard several ways to say it.
OH family is Irish but even they can't agree!
I'm told definitely not "Roar ee" like story unless in southern Ireland
OH thinks it should be more rur-ee like ggrrr, rolling the u sound
MIL thinks more like Roo-ree as in "kangaroo"

Anybody else got a ruairi in the family? Our other boy is a red head so we hope this name will fit our new arrival perfectly.

I'm Irish and live in Ireland.
Brewery without the B is the best description.
Roary is ok But this pronunciation is generally spelt Rory
But Rooree is not used at all over here

I read it as RU - airy (to rhyme with fairy)

I would say Rur-ree. Not ruh-ree, but roor-ree?

I'm Irish, and the way your OH pronounces it is correct.

I wouldn't worry too much, since you live in England, everyone he comes across will say Rory.

Where I live in Dublin people mostly say Rory too.

I have a Ruairí. I'm from Belfast but live in England. Everybody over here pronounced it as Rory. And they tend to spell it wrongly!

My immediate thought was also The Archers (On Radio 4.) The character Jennifer Aldridge pronounces it beautifully.

I got to name out first child so OH has the say with this one.Not being Irish i have to learn the pronunciation but it does sound lovely when pronounced by OH with his Irish accent.It does seem there are regional variations hence why MIL says it differently to rest of family. Just wanted to clarify before baby is here.

Which reminds me that Ian in The Archers also pronounces with great poetry and force.

Lovely name!

(Sorry, context - Ian is Irish so ...)

Roo-a-ree is how it is pronounced where I live in Ireland. My friend is pronounced that way. It is Irish for Rory (Roar-ee) but pronounced differently.

I also have no idea why you would choose a name you cannot pronounce or cannot agree on a way to pronounce it.

Gruach Jennifer and Brian both pronounce it differently despite Ruairi being his son, not hers.

I know. That’s why I said Jennifer, not Brian. She always seems to relish pronouncing every vowel.

Ian’s way is less angular, more muffle-y, but totally lovely.

Another Scot here and I would pronounce it Roo-Rey. Its a lovely name x

Excuse the slightly annoyed sounding post but this is something that has been grating me since my Ruairi was born. Ruairi should be pronounced to sound EXACTLY like STORY. People are confused with the English spelling RORY and incorrectly believe it must somehow mean the Irish version is pronounced differently. They couldnt be more wrong. The English spelling is exactly that, just the English spelling. It is not an English name, it is an Irish name and was anglicised over 800 years ago to look more English. The pronunciation however was never changed. Ruairi literally meaning "The Red Haired King" after the Last High King of Ireland "Ruairi O'Connor". I believe he would have had a different spelling in old Irish. Further ambiguity may have arisen from the fact that the Scottish (and Welsh I believe) spell it differently again and particularly in some areas of Scotland they do pronounce it Ruhr-ree. But in Ireland, it should sound exactly like the now more well known "Rory". If you want to pronounce it Ruhr-ree then I would suggest you opt for the Scottish spelling.

This is an old thread but sorry RuairisDad, "brewery without the B" is exactly right. There's literally no way to make the letters "Ruairí" make the sound "Rory" when following the rules of the Irish language. The older spelling you're referring to is Ruaidhrí which is also pronounced as brewery with the B.

The commenters saying "roo-ree" and "fury with an r" were probably using the same pronunciation and just not acknowledging the schwa in the middle.

It's definitely pronounced just like Ruadh with a rí added to the end. Why wouldn't it be?

My Scottish nephew is Ruairidh and it is pronounced the same as Rory. There's more than one way to pronounce some names, and neither is "wrong", just alternate.

Plenty of people pronounce it that way, sure, but I'm talking about the pronunciation the actual rules of the language (or languages, as the form Ruairidh is Gaelic and not Irish) dictate - the previous poster seemed angry enough about this perceived repeated mispronunciation to resurrect a zombie thread so I thought it was worth saying that it's actually him getting it wrong and that's why it happens

Mid Ulster and we would pronounce it ruhr-ee. I had to say it out loud to myself a few times to make sure as my instinct would have been to spell the phonetic as roo-ree but then realised it's not an elongated 'oo' sound, but more of a schwa 'uh' sound. The elongated 'oo' is definitely more Scottish. Roar-ee is the Anglicised Rory

I'm in the south of Ireland and agree with @abiirthdaycake. I do think we elongate the roo sound here in Munster @TheTroutofNoCraic, so it's more roo(a)ree than ruhr-ee, but maybe these are just differences in pronunciation that vary between dialects. I'm not very familiar with Ulster Irish. Though Rory is pronounced Roar-ee, Ruairí definitely should not be, even if some people do pronounce it as such. I'm sorry @RuairisDad.
.

forvo.com/word/ruairí

The above link gives the Irish language pronunciation of Ruairí.

I'd go with the sounds like brewery pronunciation too.

As a previous poster said, you can’t just say it’s wrong. I was wrong to say it was wrong. There are just several different pronunciations which we’ll just have to live with and agree to differ, but for me Rory was spelled that way just to look English. The pronunciation never changed. Thanks for all the comments. I’m surprised that there are so many on a “zombie” thread