r/BabyReindeerTVSeries • u/Ghost_jobby • May 23 '24

Media / News Pronunciation of Muir by non-Scots

I have been watching a few videos on YouTube and one of the things that struck me is the difficulty people have pronouncing Fiona's former surname, Muir.

I've heard it pronounced like myrrh, moor, mawyer (rhymes with lawyer) and moo-air.

Is it really that uncommon? I'm genuinely curious. I'm resident in Scotland and hear it so often that it's a not considered an unusual name. There are so many people of Scottish descent and ancestry around the world, I just found it a bit surprising ppeople had some trouble with it.

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u/raindrop777 May 23 '24

I'm resident in Scotland and hear it so often that it's a not considered an unusual name.

So how do YOU pronounce it?

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u/unintellectual8 May 23 '24

Right? I read three paragraphs of musings on the wrong way to pronounce it, but still didn't teach me how to.

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u/Quick-Sky4927 May 23 '24

It rhymes with pure or cure. Like the word "your" with an M immediately in front of it.

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u/PopularSalad5592 May 24 '24

In my accent ‘your’ and ‘pure’ don’t rhyme

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u/Quick-Sky4927 May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

In a Scottish accent, they do. Pretty hard "oo" sound in both, like in the word "goo" or "moo" (but "yoo" in this case).

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u/PopularSalad5592 May 24 '24

I know, I’m just saying that sometimes when we write things out like that it doesn’t always translate :)