Re: [tied] Dacian - /H/ -> seems not possible

07-12-03 22:41, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

>>I'm guessing that Richard is thinking of things like the
>>surname <Menzies>, now /'miN@.../ or the like,
>
> The Scots I'm most familiar with is as she's spoken in one of my all-time
> favourite movies ("Gregory's Girl", Bill Forsyth, 1981), and Mister Menzies
> is something like /mInzis/ there.

Cf. also <Dalziel>, the traditional pronunciation of which is "DL" (with
final stress; formerly also = "deal"), and <capercailzie> ~
<capercaillie> ['kæp&"keIl(j)i]. <Mackenzie> used to be pronounced
[m&"kenji].

Piotr