English Language

[Whiskery Ron]

I'm wondering how many other people out there who wonder & ponder about our English Language. Sir Menzies Campbell has been in the news a lot lately which set me thinking. How on earth can Menzies become Mingis? I have noticed others too,eg. Beauchamp is pronounced Beecham, Belvoir is pronounced Beever, Chalmondely becomes Chumley.Is this a ''Clarse'' thing I wonder after all Tom Jones is Tom Jones & Fred Smith is Fred Smith. I welcome your comments on this.WR.

[Emu2005]

Also Mcleod is pronounced McCloud - not such a big difference, but I never knew that is wasn't pronounced as it's spelt, and when I turned up for an interview once and asked for Ms Mc-le-od I must have sounded like a right idiot! No surprise I didn't get the job!!!

[Skreecheeboy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4595228.st m

No idea why Milngavie is pronounced Mull-guy though!

[4GS]

Magdalen college is pronounced mawdlin
wtf?

[Gromit]

Not the English Lannguages fault in the case of Ming, it is Scottish Gaelic.