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Menzies
Menzies is a Scottish surname. It is probably derived, like its Gaelic form Méinnearach, from the Norman name Mesnières.〔(Clan Menzies website )〕〔(BBC Alba - ''Litir do Luchd-ionnsachaidh'' (554) )〕〔(David Hey: ''Family names and family history'', pp 37-38 )〕
== Pronunciation ==
This Scottish name is traditionally pronounced, as it still is in Scotland, , since the English letter was used as a substitute for the now obsolete letter <> (yogh) in the Scots language (Menȝies). However, many now do not know this, and today it is often pronounced as if it were an English word and hence it is often pronounced . A Scottish limerick plays on the traditional pronunciation:
There wis a young lassie named Menzies,
That askit her aunt whit this thenzies.
Said her aunt wi a gasp,
"Ma dear, it's a wasp,
An you're haudin the end whaur the stenzies!"
The second and fifth lines are pronounced as though the were a <>, making "thing is" and "sting is", to rhyme with "Menzies". "Wasp" rhymes with "gasp" in Scots.
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