M. writes:<\/p>\n
How would you pronounce the name Greer? I think I could love this little-used one-syllable gem of a name…but would like to know the “right” pronunciation.<\/p>\n
Various source are telling me:
\nGryer (rhymes with dryer)
\nGreer (rhymes with beer)
\nGree-er (like greeter without the t)
\nGrair (rhymes with fair)<\/p>\nBut I trust YOU, Swistle! :)<\/p>\n
Many thanks, should you choose to answer this one!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I just realized I’ve never heard it pronounced aloud, and I’ve never met a Greer. I’ve been going along assuming it was pronounced to rhyme with beer, though if someone described it as “greeter without the T” I could see it that way too: I don’t exactly say Gree-er, but as with the word beer there’s a lengthening of the vowel. I see The Baby Name Wizard has it listed<\/a> the way I think of it. It’s also that way on Inogolo<\/a> and Forvo<\/a> (and there are three more chances to hear it under Germaine Greer<\/a>), so I’d be ready to say it’s the rhymes-with-beer one—but whenever we do these pronunciation polls we get some surprises. Normally I like to do the poll with separate options for people who actually know someone with the name, but I think with so many possible pronunciations, that would get too long.<\/p>\n
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M. writes: How would you pronounce the name Greer? I think I could love this little-used one-syllable gem of a name…but would like to know the “right” pronunciation. Various source are telling me: Gryer (rhymes with dryer) Greer (rhymes with beer) Gree-er (like greeter without the t) Grair (rhymes with fair) But I trust YOU, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1XB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}