Dalziel
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Dalziel, Dalzell or Dalyell is a common Scottish surname. It is pronounced deeyel (IPA /diː'ɛl/), though a pronunciation with /z/ may now also be heard outside Scotland. The name is an anglicisation of Gaelic Dail-gheal, so the sound now spelled with <y> or <z> is in fact a lenited slender /g/, which in Gaelic is pronounced [j] (like English <y>). The English form of the name was originally spelled with a <ȝ> (yogh), which was later replaced with either a <z>, the letter of the modern alphabet which looks most like yogh, or a <y>, which more closely represents the sound.
People with this surname include:
- Andrew Dalziel, fictitious detective, part of the team Dalziel and Pascoe in a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill.
- Henry Dalziel, Australian war hero
- Ian Dalziel, British businessman and politician
- Ian Dalziel (geophysicist), American professor
- Lianne Dalziel, New Zealand MP
- Ryan Dalziel, British race car driver
- Tam Dalyell, British Labour politician
- Dalziel Brothers, a firm of Victorian engravers founded in 1839 by George Dalziel and Edward Dalziel, assisted by John Dalziel and Thomas Dalziel.
- Thomas Dalziel, also spelled Dalzell, 17th-century British general
It is also the former name for the town of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland[citation needed], which still contains a Corus Steel manufacturing facility of the same name. Dalziel Rugby Club play in nearby Carfin, with the majority of players coming from the Motherwell area.
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