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I was corrected by a Sierra tech once on how to properly pronounce Lapua. He was close.....Listen

http://www.lapua.com/en/lapua/lapua-video.html

Alan

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."

Yeah, and they pronounced "decades" with emphasis on the second syllable whereas in the U.S. the emphasis tends to be on the first. I've yet to hear an Englishman pronounce "aluminum" correctly. Someday those foreigners will catch on and start using proper English.

If only you would spell words corectly you would have much less trouble pronouncing them. You guys say the word the way you spell it but the corect spelling is aluminium and then the pronounciation is easily comprehended.

Von Gruff.

Junior class play: The Family Nobody Wanted - one of the lines was, "We're all out of aluminum paint." The girl could not pronounce the word aluminum - usually came out something like "amoolium". The director finally wrote to the company that owned the play and got written permission to change it to silver paint of which we were out.

Also, one has to be from Buena Vista County, Iowa, or a county in close proximity thereto in order to understand that the correct pronunciation is "Bew(rhymes with new)-nuh Vist(rhymes with list)-uh.

It's spelled both ways ... and BTW correct has 2 RRs

beat me to it!

Well, at least it doesn't have that extra "u" thrown in between an "o" and an "r".

Spelling bee or post count?

They do pronounce it correctly using 'english' english not the other version.

From Wiki

j f - correctomundo.. I've never seen alumium spelled with 2 I s.

I have heard people say (seriously) alumium.

So. You all are saying the correct pronunciation for Lapua is aluminum. Unless you are in the England.

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

Lap-poo-a

That's the way we say it, not the way they say it. Their emphasis is on the "LOP" with the "oo" and "ah" following.

It's like Sako. We use the strong "a", they use an "ah".

It's their language, but what do they know...

We'll call'em what we call'em, don't you know...

DF

I never heard the "oo" over there. If it was there, it was very slight, very short, quite unnoticeable.

The "u" in Lapua, over there, was like (to my ear) like the "u" in persuade, which is certainly not "PER-soo-ade" any place where I've heard it.

Sako...another one of those funny Finn words. I do know my Sako shoots with Lapua brass quite well.

And Sako is "SAH-ko," not "SOCK-oh." Or, if you will, "SAAAH-ko." It's sorta like the difference between we and whee or woe and whoa.

Imo, it is,,,,,,,,,,,,La-puu-aah

I'd expect you to pronounce it "liar".