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

[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