Who are you calling a Campbell?
You don’t tend to go to Dadblog for lessons in language (you tend to go there for cosy John-Peel-style pastorals) but today Lloyd points to a BBC article on the pronunciation of Menzies, as in Cambell. It explains why it’s pronounced Mingiss and hence abbreviated to Ming (it’s to do with the disused letter yogh), which leads us to some terribly amusing t-shirts from supporters of his leadership campaign.
And, excitingly, we can go one step further than either the BBC or Dadblog. The yogh still lives on in Unicode, so we can happily write his name correctly as Menʒies Campbell. How great is that?
