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December 07, 2018, 10:45 AM

Patrick-SP2022

Y'aint talkin' raht. Correct your gun babbling here ...

How about Vltor?

quote:
The name VLTOR originates from the Latin word ultor and means “Avenger”.
Latin pronunciation is uhl’tawr. Current pronunciation is vōl-tȯr.

Source: https://www.vltor.com/company/

December 07, 2018, 12:31 PM

tatortodd

Geissele

quote:
Q: First off you have a unique last name. Can you tell our readers how to correctly pronounce it? I have heard it pronounced so many different ways including: ‘Jee-sell', ‘Guy-sel', ‘Guy-sell-ee' and ‘Guys-Lee'. So who's right?

Its pronounced ‘Guys-Lee'. It is a German name that in Germany is pronounced “Guy-sa-la” The ‘e's are said like ‘a's. Sort of like Porch-a. But since my family has been here 190 years it has been totally Americanized. If I go to Germany people immediately think I am German and start talking to me in German and when I tell them I am an American they say “Oh your name is SO German…..your family is from Southern Germany”.

Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity

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December 08, 2018, 05:05 PM

Chris42

Mauser. “MAU-zer”
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December 11, 2018, 10:50 PM

cas

"Sock-oh" (it's not a watch)

And yet... Even though I know it's wrong, I still say it wrong.

December 12, 2018, 08:06 AM

Perception

I'm going to need a trigger warning next time. The winch/ wench thing is one of my biggest pet peeves.

quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
Any clue how to pronounce Česká zbrojovka? Neither do I, but I can pronounce CZ. How do you pronounce the S in Mauser, like "sss" or a Z?

Even when Leupold is pronounced correctly, sometimes when a person transcribes it, it gets lost in the translation. How many times have you seen "Loophole" scopes for sale in an ad paper, or "Mouser" rifles? And this common/famous one …

"The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford, "it is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards."
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in."

December 12, 2018, 01:42 PM

jhe888

I'd quibble with the phonetic spelling of Mosin Nagant.

More like Moe-san (say the "an" like "ant" without the "t,") Nug-an (same on the "an" sound but a little rounder).

Those are French words, and we don't really have that sound in English. As I say, it is a little rounder than "ant," but still a little nasal. And the French don't really sound the final consonant in words like Mosin or Nagan, but they don't entirely drop it. They hint at it.