Thorny issues

Ray Brown wrote:
> Yep - and up in Scotland, yogh and z seem to have got themselves confused,
>  so we know have. e.g.
> capercailzie /k&p@(r)'kejli/ a species of grouse
> and the surnames:
> Dalziel /di'El/
Whoever thought that up?! silly orthographies :)

> Menzies /'mINIs/
>
> Tho I gather the latter has acquired in spelling pronunciation /'mEzIz/ in
> our former colonies  :)
More like /'menziz/ (or /mEnziz/ or however you want to think of it)
where  the /i/ is like -y, but I suppose you just accidentally forgot to
type the /n/ and were thinking in RP. (At least in this former colony
that has had a Menzies as our head of Government.)

But is it actually pronounced /'mINIs/ in England? I'd thought that was
a Scotland-only thing...

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