Pronunciation of "Rothes"

DEBRETT’S PEERAGE, 1915

ROTHES, EARL OF (Leslie)

[Title pronounced “Roth-ez.”]

Norman Evelyn Leslie, 19^th Earl and a Representative Peer for Scotland; b. July 13^th, 1877; succeeded 1893; ed. at Eton; is Lieut-Col. Highland Cyclist Batn; formerly Lieut. (Reserve) 4^th Batn. Devonshire Regt; Lieut. 6^th Vol. Batn. The Black Watch (Roy. Highlanders), and Capt. Fife R.F.A.: m. 1900, Lucy Noël Martha, only child of Thomas Dyer-Edwardes, J. P., of Prinknash Park, Gloucester; 5 Hyde Park Gate, W., and Chateau de Retival, Caudebec en Caux, Normandy.

Family motto: “Grip Fast.”

COMMENT: Debrett's, the Bible of the British Aristocracy, in this 1915 entry for the Countess of Rothes' husband, prints in parentheses what it declares is the proper pronunciation for 'Rothes.'

The pronunciation offered by Debrett's differs markedly from the Hollywood convention that the

name be pronounced 'Roths,' as if rhyming with 'moths.'

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