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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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MrsWainwright · 19/01/2010 14:24

More like the second but also Gregg-ore

FromGirders · 19/01/2010 14:24

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

MaggieNilAonSneachta · 19/01/2010 14:25

I should have done

  1. Greggore!

thanks

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expatinscotland · 19/01/2010 14:25

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

expatinscotland · 19/01/2010 14:25

Western Scotland here.

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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giraffesCantWalkInSnow · 19/01/2010 14:27

I had no idea Gregor was such a Scottish name!

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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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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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' .

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 14:38

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.

FimBOW · 19/01/2010 14:39

Greg gur

drloves8 · 19/01/2010 14:52

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

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.

Aelfwyn · 19/01/2010 15:03

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

waitingforbedtime · 19/01/2010 15:05

Greggur definitely

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.

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

Pingpong · 19/01/2010 16:30

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

hf128219 · 19/01/2010 16:35

It's Greggur.

Morningside is wannabe posh!

drloves8 · 19/01/2010 16:48

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

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)

sweetkitty · 19/01/2010 17:31

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

MaggieNilAonSneachta · 19/01/2010 18:40

galloway irish? never heard that term!

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