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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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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

hf128219 · 19/01/2010 20:33

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

FromGirders · 19/01/2010 21:53

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

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!

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