Oh dear, Joe. Oh dear.
It’s said that Alec Douglas-Home was once confounded by a fellow Scot called Menzies because he pronounced his name to rhyme with ‘frenzies’.
Why, enquired the great man, whom my father revered as ‘too much of a gent ever to be a successful prime minister’, didn’t Menzies use the more usual pronunciation north of the border, which sounds like ‘Mingies’?
‘I’ll have to think about that,’ replied Menzies, ‘and I’ll tell…
