Dalziel - Pronunciation

Pronunciation

The unintuitive spelling of the name is due to it being an anglicisation of Gaelic Dail-gheal, meaning bright dale. The sound now spelled with a or is historically a lenited slender /ɡ/, which in Gaelic is pronounced (like English ). The English form of the name was originally spelled with a <ȝ> (yogh); this was later replaced with either a , the letter of the modern alphabet which most looks like yogh, or a , which more closely represents the sound.