So how many of you say "StRUm and Ruger" when it's really "StURm and Ruger"?

January 07, 2020, 11:52 AM

gearhounds

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Sturm Ruger? I’ve been calling it Strum Roger! I’ve been making an ass of myself!

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January 07, 2020, 01:01 PM

Oat_Action_Man

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Another extremely common one is reading and pronouncing the “Leu” of Leupold as “Leo” rather than the correct “Loo.”

I think the answer to both this and the OP's "Sturm" is a general lack of familiarity with German.

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January 07, 2020, 02:05 PM

hjs157

This is an interesting post. I understood the OP having more to do with how the human brain interprets the written surname Sturm rather than if the company is properly referred to as Ruger, Sturm-Ruger or Sturm, Ruger & Co. Clearly, the human mind often sees what it wishes to see.

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January 07, 2020, 02:38 PM

John Steed

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Originally posted by TSE:
I have always read Sturm. I also hear a lot of Smith and Weston though. And Hammereli vice Hammerli

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January 07, 2020, 03:35 PM

italia

I have Sturm ancestors dating back to the 1600's in Schifferstadt, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and likely prior.

I also have Saur (also spelled Sauer later) ancestors dating back to early 1600's in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Interesting to me, my 8th Grandfather was a Sturm who married a Sauer. They immigrated to Pennsylvania around 1730-1740, and at some point the Sturm name was changed to Storm in US.

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January 07, 2020, 03:41 PM

flashguy

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Another extremely common one is reading and pronouncing the “Leu” of Leupold as “Leo” rather than the correct “Loo.”

Technically, since it's a German name, it probably should be "Loy", and the name as "Loypoldt".

I have always pronounced "Sturm" correctly. However, I seldom use the full company name and just refer to the guns as Rugers.

I also smile when someone calls a Porsche car a "Porch"--it's actually like the female name "Portia" (as in the old radio show "Portia Faces Life"--most of you are probably too young to have listened to it).

And of course, the football star who pronounces his last name "Favre" as "Farve". I'm guessing it's a French name and should really be pronounced "FAHVruh".

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January 07, 2020, 04:23 PM

sigfreund

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Technically, since it's a German name, it probably should be "Loy", and the name as "Loypoldt".

How do we pronounce the German name of the capital of Bavaria—or better yet, how do we spell it?
Should Paris, Texas, be pronounced … “paris” or “pairee”? There is also a Versailles, Missouri, whose pronunciation by the locals (“ver-sails”) when I first heard it (after having spent two and a half years in France) caused me to laugh out loud.

Proper names should be pronounced as their bearers desire.

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January 07, 2020, 04:27 PM

italia

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Proper names should be pronounced as their bearers desire.

Yeah maybe. But there's a tiny little town southwest of Nashville called 'Sante Fe'. The locals pronounce it 'santa fee'. I just can't get on board with that

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January 07, 2020, 04:31 PM

cas

When you say Sturm right, it sort sounds like you said Strum anyway.

My favorite was years ago, I was in a gun store with a friend, and he asked the guy behind the counter "Do you have any 12 gauge sabots?" Pronouncing it "sa-Bot".

The counter guy said, you mean "sabits".

My friend said, "no, sabots!"

"It's saBITs" says the clerk.

They go back and forth a few times, starting to sound like an Abbot and Costello routine. So I interject... "Actually, it's pronounced "sa-bo", it means "shoe".

Of course they both stop, turn and look at me like I'M the stupidest sonofabitch they'd ever met.

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January 07, 2020, 04:31 PM

RogueJSK

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Originally posted by kkina:
I knew it was Sturm, but I tend say it with an umlaut ("Stürm"), which I think makes it "Storming Ruger".

There's no umlaut in sturm (in either the last name or the German noun meaning "storm").

There is, however, an umlaut in stürmen, which is the German verb meaning "to storm".