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Dalziel? and pascoe.
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Whats with the pronunciation of Dalziel.
it is literally pronounced, D L.
anyone know if that is a nickname or its just a messed up way of saying it ?
it is literally pronounced, D L.
anyone know if that is a nickname or its just a messed up way of saying it ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.All to do with an obsoete Irish letter which was pronounced somewhere like a yy sound but actually looked quite like a z. As such originally it was pronounced Delyiel but when the letter (known as a yog) was replaced by printers with the nearest thing to it (a z the name became written as Delziel but the pronunciation remained pretty much as it always had been, hence say Delyiel quickly and you have DL.