Quote Originally Posted by ThistleDown View Post
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.
Quite right Rex.