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A kid that I know insists it's "luh-poye". Course he also says "Hornaday" and talks about the "mil-dot retacticle" in his scope.
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My buddy Bob Milek had a "hair of the dog" in his mouth just as a good ol' boy across the aisle said "That's a good clear scope, all right, but I don't like that rectal at all."
Nobody complained when Bob sprayed the aisle with good whiskey.
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A kid that I know insists it's "luh-poye". Course he also says "Hornaday" and talks about the "mil-dot retacticle" in his scope. That must be Finnish Redneck... DF
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I'd expect you to pronounce it "liar". ...........And I expect that you`ll never tell me that to my face there iron bend-over. Another on line gutt-less wonder from behind a keyboard.
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Here is one I never heard the proper pronunciation for. Schoenauer. Everytime I see one I just say mannlicher. I'm guessing sku-now-er?
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I always said SHOW-now-er. Doesn't make it right.
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To sound the � in Sch�nauer, pucker as if you're going to say "oh," but say a as in say, and you'll have it close. (The oe is the American substitute for the German �.) "Shaynauer" and "Shownauer" are common American near-misses. "Shernauer" is close to right. Oehler is an Americanization of the German �hler, and my friend Ken's American pronunciation is AY-ler, not OH-ler. Now go to work on G�ring!
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It's pronounced KWAL-ity.
Wurdz
When I woke up this morning, the weatherman on TV suggested that it would be foggish. This time of year it is caused by coolsified air floating over ground that is still warmly. The result of the two temperatures combinating, results in slight to moderate foggitivity.
When I arrived at work ce matin, coolsified air pulsations were puking out of the ventilation ductage, making my office coldly and somewhat uncomfortable. Since I was not the only one that was half frozen, we called the building maintenance guy to fix the furnace. It is now warmly.
I am looking forward to the summer with much invigoration.
Safe Shooting! Steve Redgwell www.303british.comGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain Member - Professional Outdoor Media Association of Canada
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Ah, the weather guys!
"Ten degrees" is never enough � gotta be "the ten-degree mark."
"Thundershowers" is never enough � gotta be "thundershower activity."
"New England" is never enough � gotta be "the New England area."
Inevitably, invariably
And the sports writers with their eternal scramble for cutesy-poo clich� substitutes for won, lost, and beat are just as wacky in their own ways.
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Ken...how about this one..a pet peeve..
Kilimanjaro
From the Swahili...should be two words Kilima njaro...
but forget about that happening...
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"flooding" (n) � faux high-falutin substitute for floods
signage � faux high-falutin substitute for signs
urban-rural interface � faux high-falutin substitute for the edge of town
shirtings � faux high-falutin substitute for shirts
(� and FWIW, falutin isn't a truncation of "faluting.")
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Maux Faux Braux!
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Ken...how about this one..a pet peeve..
Kilimanjaro
From the Swahili...should be two words Kilima njaro...
but forget about that happening... Here's another'n for you � Mississippi = "the big river" so "the Mississippi River" = "the the big-river river" � and for good measure � "Alhambra" = "the red fortress" so "the Alhambra" = "the the red fortress" No charge! Enjoy!
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I love it!
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� and of course since PIN = personal identification number,
PIN number = personal identification number number
and
ATM machine = automatic-teller machine machine
Let's leave "rpms per minute" for another time.
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I thought RPMs per minute was a term for acceleration, like meters per second per second, only for rotation. No? I cannot be convinced that there is more than one correct pronunciation for words. I consider a certain pronunciation is either proper or improper, period. Of course, dialect plays a role in the sound that comes out, but the correct spelling does not change, hence the phonics do not change. Call me a relic, but that is the way I was taught in school in the sixties and seventies. If I spelled or pronounced a word incorrectly, I was wrong. That's the problem. Nobody wants to admit that they or anyone else might actually be wrong. It might hurt their feelings. Good grief! At the gun store today the salesman told me he had a LEE-ka rangefinder to use along with my LEE-uh-pold scope on my SAY-ko rifle. I just smiled. Didn't want to hurt his feelings. ("sigh!")
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You'd've chuckled at Walter Kerr's two-word review of the play "I Am a Camera" �
"No Leica."
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— and of course since PIN = personal identification number,
PIN number = personal identification number number
and
ATM machine = automatic-teller machine machine
Let's leave "rpms per minute" for another time. Sorta like the Sierra Nevada Mountains!
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To sound the � in Sch�nauer, pucker as if you're going to say "oh," but say a as in say, and you'll have it close. (The oe is the American substitute for the German �.) "Shaynauer" and "Shownauer" are common American near-misses. "Shernauer" is close to right. Oehler is an Americanization of the German �hler, and my friend Ken's American pronunciation is AY-ler, not OH-ler. Now go to work on G�ring! Thanks! That always bothered me. I am drawn to them, like a moth to a flame. Now i can't wait to correct everybody at the next gun show!
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