{"id":495,"date":"2006-01-10T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T13:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/10\/menzies_or_minghis"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:21:01","slug":"menzies_or_minghis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/10\/menzies_or_minghis","title":{"rendered":"Menzies or Minghis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"BBC NEWS | Magazine | Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis?\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4595228.stm\">BBC NEWS Magazine &#8211; Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is for anyone wondering about why the man who could become the leader of the third biggest party in the UK has such an oddly-pronounced name.  (The article mentions the Scottish cop drama Dalziel &#8211; pronounced DL &#8211; and Pascoe, without mentioning what puzzled us here in the Smith household: why did nobody in the show <em>ever<\/em> pronounce Dalziel the way it looks in English?)<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, at least we don&#39;t have anyone with any Polish tongue-twisters; I once had a classmate whose middle name was Wladyslaw, prnounced &quot;Vwuddiswuff&quot;, a name I thought was a nonsense name he had made up himself until I saw it written down years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS Magazine &#8211; Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis? This is for anyone wondering about why the man who could become the leader of the third biggest party in the UK has such an&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-7Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42630,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/42630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}