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Old 05-24-2009, 09:59 AM   #224
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Here's one for all our non-British friends: how do you pronounce the name "Menzies"? No Brits allowed to answer!
You sort of pronounce the "z" as a "g", so it's like saying Min-gis. It's because the original spelling of the name included a letter that isn't in the modern alphabet, but looked a tiny bit like a "z".

But, over here, we also say Men-zeez.
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