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Menzies is a Scottish surname, with Gaelic forms being Méinnearach and Méinn, and other variant forms being Menigees, Mennes, Mengzes, Menzeys, Mengies, and Minges. [ citation needed ] Derivation and history
Sir Gilbert Menzies of Pitfolds was with Montrose throughout his campaign and was also at the Battle of Inverlochy when his chief's son was killed. [7] In 1665 Sir Alexander Menzies was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia. [7] Alexander's brother was Colonel James Menzies of Culdares, who claimed to have survived no fewer than nine serious wounds. [7]
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
The pronunciation of MacKenzie (and its variant spellings) (from Scottish Gaelic MacCoinnich [maxˈkʰɤɲɪç]), originally pronounced [məˈkɛŋjiː] in Scots, [1] shows where yogh became z. Menzies Campbell is another example.
Stewart Graham Menzies was born in England in 1890 into a wealthy family as the second son of John Graham Menzies and Susannah West Wilson, daughter of ship-owner Arthur Wilson of Tranby Croft. [3] His grandfather, Graham Menzies, was a whisky distiller who helped establish a cartel and made huge profits.
Cameron Menzies (born 27 June 1989) is a Scottish darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He reached the semi-finals at the 2017 World Masters and the 2022 WDF Lakeside World Championship. Menzies also won his maiden PDC title in 2024 and reached the quarter-finals at the 2024 Grand Slam of Darts.
Tobias Simpson Menzies (born 7 March 1974) is an English actor. [1] He is known for playing Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in the third and fourth seasons of the series The Crown, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and received Golden Globe and British Academy Television Award nominations.
The unintuitive spelling of the name is due to it being an anglicisation of Scottish Gaelic Dail-gheal, meaning 'bright dale'.The sound now spelled with a y or z is historically a lenited slender / ɡ /, which in Gaelic is pronounced [j] (like English y ).