And my M'Elrea became Mylrea on the Isle of Man!Kathleen ---- On
Wed, 13 May 2020 03:22:10 -0700 elwyn soutter via
CoTyroneList<[email protected]> wrote ----There’s similar
confusion over the letter Z as it appears in surnames inIreland and Scotland.
Gaelic doesn’t have the letter Y and scholars,perhaps unwisely, decided to
express that sound using the letter Z instead.So the surname Dalziel is
correctly pronounced Dee-Yell. (But sometimes nowspelled Dalyell). Menzies is
pronounced Men us or Min us. McKenzie wasoriginally pronounced McKinney.
Because of this rather confusingarrangement, in many cases people have started
pronouncing the names theway they are spelled. So you can have two totally
different pronunciationsof the same word or two quite different spellings of
the same surname.So don’t worry too much about the “correct” spelling of any
surname, or whya couple of letters may have disappeared over the years. Or
whether it wasMc or Mac. (It was originally neither. Early documents mostly use
M’).Elwyn
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