T’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
The Donny Osmond of dogs
Aug 09, 2023
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