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We have a fella here in town that calls Nikons-Kneekons and the Browning Citori a Sigh-tori
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OK, wise guys, how about Minox? MINE-ox, or Min-ux? Pronounced like Mynocks, the bat things from The Empire Strikes Back that try to suck power from the Millenium Falcon. The factory reps for Minox at the outdoor shows that I used to work pronounced it "Me-nox". The factory rep is wrong. Any time a person has an opportunity to use a Star Wars reference but chooses to go some other direction, they are in the wrong.
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Lee-Uh-Pold. To pronounce it otherwise is to be declared elitist or demonstrates that a person watches too many hunting shows, at least that's the story in some of the circles I run.
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Lee-Uh-Pold. To pronounce it otherwise is to be declared elitist or demonstrates that a person watches too many hunting shows, at least that's the story in some of the circles I run. So you'll all know, in AL the correct pronunciation is Loop-hold...one of the few words here, aside from Moma or trains or prison or trucks, that are not pronounced with 3 syllables...
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SWAR as in swarm, OV as in ovulate, SKI, for snow skiing
LEU, what British call a bathroom, POL, as in a polecat, D as in d
OK. What about LAPUA ? To me it sounds more like lah-pwa. Listen to this... http://www.lapua.com/en/lapua/lapua-video.htmlDF
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All these names and and pronunciations are so confusing. I'm sticking with the trusty ol' turdy-turdy with an oxygen barrel...
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All these names and and pronunciations are so confusing. I'm sticking with the trusty ol' turdy-turdy with an oxygen barrel... Yeah, it's hard for us Rednecks and Cajuns to keep with with Germans, Finnish, Swedish and their ways of talking. I kinda like our's best...  DF
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SWAR as in swarm, OV as in ovulate, SKI, for snow skiing
LEU, what British call a bathroom, POL, as in a polecat, D as in d
OK. What about LAPUA ? To me it sounds more like lah-pwa. Listen to this... http://www.lapua.com/en/lapua/lapua-video.htmlDF The spokesman sounds like a Brit. and you know they don't speak proper English.
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You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
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Yeah, those Brits sure can't speak English...
Dr. Ken Howell, IIRC, was over there and said "lah-pwa" or very close to that, was the way it sounded to him.
I almost hear an "a" between the "p" and "w", but not quite.
DF
Edited to add, the more I listen to that piece by the Brit, the more I hear the "a". So, somewhere between lah-pwa and lop-awah, almost jumping over the "a", two syllables, not three.
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Lee-Uh-Pold. To pronounce it otherwise is to be declared elitist or demonstrates that a person watches too many hunting shows, at least that's the story in some of the circles I run. I thought it was so the owners felt like they had German optics .. ..
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How do you say BSA? HUNK-of-crap, or piece-of-CRAP?
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