Greenock.
I’m asking because I keep seeing a TV ad for a cruise operator, where I can’t help feeling that they’re mispronouncing it. I dare say I could well be wrong, but I thought it was more or less ‘Grennock’ (short e) whereas they’re pronouncing the first syllable ‘green’, as in the colour.
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Its from the Gaelic Grianaig meaning "at the sunny knoll". That would be pronounced Gree-an-aik so I'm sticking with Green like the colour.