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Below is a scan of an ad from Niedner from the January 1928 issue of The American Rifleman. The name is spelled the same in different ads published later in that year.
--Bob

You're right. I got it backward.

In Finland it is pronounced SOCKO.Been to the plant and am a Finn.

Speaking of Alaska.............


Seward = sue word not sea word

Kenai = keen eye not Ken eye

Denali = den alley not den Ollie

Bush Company = fun

"3�9x40" = "three to nine by forty."

"3�9" = three to nine, not "three BY nine."

The en dash (�) isn't a hyphen (-), always means "to" when it's between two numbers (indicates a spread of numbers, from the lower number to the higher number).

Likewise the X, x, or � always means "by" when it's between two numbers � as in 2�4 and 2�12 lumber or 4�4 vehicles, for example.

A "three-by-nine" scope would be a fixed-power 3�, not a variable, with an objective lens very small in diameter.

- = hyphen (standard keyboard character)
� = en dash (ASCII character, Alt + 0150 in most word-processors)
� = em dash (ASCII character, Alt + 0151 in most word-processors)
/ = virgule ("slash" is a cattle-brand term)
* = asterisk (as in "It's too risky for me. I've got only one *."

Depending upon where you are in Ontario the City of Toronto may be pronounced Tor-on-toe or Tronna.

Can anyone tell me what the correct pronunciation is of the flower "bougainvillea" (sp?) Any time I ask I seem to get differing opinions.

Jim

Now you know my Microsoft has so many variations of English in the spell check option? What can be done with language is amazing.

JW

I know the correct saying is SOCKO, just can't bring myself to say it.
Makes me think of some kind of weird circus clown!

When I lived in Phoenix and Yuma, everyone pronounced it
BOO-gen-VEE-ya

* = asterisk (as in "It's too risky for me. I've got only one *." [/quote]


Now THAT was funny

Then don't say SOCk-o. Stretch it out a bit � SAAH-ko.

No one wanted to take a stab at "Brno"? Most people I know insist on calling it Broono. I believe it is "Br-NO"

A well educated [to no avail] gun nut of my aquaintance calls those expensive German optical products, "Sa-VOR-Skee" and the well-known American products "Lee-uh-polds"

Another friend insists on referring to Belgian commercial 98 Mausers as "F and N's"

You just made by day by providing something rarer than a Pedersen device - using (correctly) Belgian instead of Belgium as the adjective form. If I had a nickel for every "Belgium Browning" I've seen mentioned, I could buy one of the things. I don't know why that mistake is so common. I've never seen "Germany Mauser" or "Japan Arisaka" anywhere.

Pronunciation can be a bit of a crap shoot in this part of the country. A mining town named Lead (Leed), capitol named Pierre (Peer), a farm town named Sinai (Si NEE eye), and a lake named Poinsett (PON set) for a couple.

Oh, and a town named Huron that's mostly pronounced closer to Hurine. Then there's the ever popular question, is it "ma NOOR" or "meh NERR."

Guess how "Franchi" is pronounced, unfailingly. But there's enough Finns about that "Sako" always comes out right.

I think that most of us pronounced it to rhyme with "sit".

Well, 5sdad, glad to be of service--and me a product of the public education system! Maybe all is not lost after all...

I system within which I labored for 32 years. You make me proud. Thanks, John

C-H = "See-Aitch" (initials of founder, Charles Heckman).

"See and Aitch" is sugar.

That which we call a rose, huh? Oh fun in the spring when the flinging begins!

My observation is that most folks that live there call it Rat-On not Ra-tone. YMMV