Quote Originally Posted by MacMhuirich View Post
Hi - not sure im posting in the right place
i joined the forum some time ago and then forgot about it and thought i would reconnect!

My husband wasn't born MacMhuirich.... he adpoted the name and legally changed it a few years back. his grandmothers maiden name is Murray and he did some research and found it originated from MacMhuirich He then legally changed his name to MacMhuirich - i have married him and now it is my name

I did recently meet a gentleman from scotland and wrote my name down so he could pronounce it for me and he said it as i would pronounce it
Mac Meer ick however we so often are called Mac Mur itch

from what i have read (as uncommon as CH is traditionally) we are pronouncin it correctly and it would be a hard CK sound not soft CH

thoughts ...!?
Welcome to XMTS, MacMhuirich, from Inverness-shire and British Columbia.

Your name has that wonderful Gaelic "v" in its midst, a lengthened "ooo" following, has a trill of "r" and ends with a soft "ch" (not a "tch" and not quite an "sh"). Makes it something like "mack-voor-ish" but I think you need to hear it as it is pronounced in the old MacMhuirich part of the Highlands. It has been anglicised as Macpherson, I'm sure you know, and translates as the son of the parson. I'm not sure where your husband's source "Murray" came from because there were never Murrays in Badenoch and Murray and MacMhuirich are two entirely separate families with quite different origins.