This is the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, the Right Honourable Walter Menzies [MING-IS] Campbell.
He's the MP for North East Fife, and in his youth he was an Olympic sprinter, holding the British record for the 100 metres.
I want to talk about his name.
Walter Menzies [MING-IS] Campbell.
Ming for short.
Most people who aren't Scottish would look at that middle name and pronounce it MENZ-IES.
In fact, a lot of people do pronounce it that way.
So what's going on here?
To find out, we have to go back into history.
Our modern English alphabet hasn't always looked like this.
