He's the frontrunner for the Lib Dem leadership, but why is Sir Menzies Campbell's first name pronounced Mingis? Pronounced "yog", it used to be written a bit like the old copperplate-style "z" with a ...
Sir Menzies Campbell, front runner in the Liberal Democrat leadership campaign, is universally known as "Ming". His soubriquet derives from the Scottish pronunciation of his first name, Mingis not ...