When I was over there, they pronounced it "LOP-wa."
I asked the president of Valmet how to pronounce "Valmet." He said "VOLL-m't." (Rhymes with "doll mitt.")
Twain wrote "They spell it Da Vinci and pronounce it Da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce."
Dr. Ken,
In that tape, it seems to me the Brit was saying LOP-oo-wah. He seemed to be making three syllables out of it, rather than two, as in LOP-wa.
Do the natives make a two syllable word out of Lapua, or was the Brit just adding his touch...?
Those Brit can't speak English, must less Finnish or Swedish...
DF
