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.