Sir Menzies Campbell

[poliphilo]

So is it Ming or is it Ming-es?

We just heard a BBC journalist pronounce it both ways in the course of a single report.

He's the leader of a major political party and not even the experts know how to pronounce his name.

Comments

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

It's Ming-es, but is just Ming for short. Most of his party colleagues call him Ming, so if the report incorporated a quoted form one of them he might have been referred to as Ming.

Cameron likes to be called Dave, Blair likes to be called Tony, so Lord Menzies Campbell has to be called Ming.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that.

So both are right.

[airstrip.livejournal.com]

Someone should just call him "The Vase."

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

When he first emerged into the public gaze there were lots of jokes about "Ming the Merciless". Given that the guy looks like mild-mannered country lawyer, they were kinda hard to sustain

[michaelkeane.livejournal.com]

It's a good job he'll never be mentioned very often, let alone get near a position of real power.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've wasted my vote on the Lib Dems several times in the past.

[methodius.livejournal.com]

And if Gordon Brown and David whatisiname are the alternatives, I hope you do again.

I was visiting Cornwall on your election day last year, and was pleased to wake up the following morning in a Tory and Labour-free zone, though then, of course, the LibDems were led by Charlie K, who I gather was a bit of a lush. But if I was a Brit I would have voted for them, not just because I'm a pinko liberal (and proud of it) but because they stood out against the wars of aggression fought by the belligerent Mr Blair.

[methodius.livejournal.com]

I thought Ming was a nickname, like Tony for Anthony.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think you're right.