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Try ordering Blue Curacao in a bar and pronouncing Curacao correctly.
You might get a drink with a dog and a pig in it. Cur-uh-sow........
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It was a VW add slogan.
Fahrvergnügen It is a German compound word using variants of "Fahren" (to travel, to drive, etc) and Vergnügen (to enjoy, take pleasure in..etc) in this context, Fahrvergnügen could be translated as "the joy of driving" or the "enjoyment of driving" SO, driving a VW gives you joy, you should buy one! ![]() many of us understand the "joy of shooting", but be careful how you spell it (especially in German) get the "i" and the "e" in the wrong order and it becomes "the joy of taking a dump", which is also a pleasure, but a QUITE different thing. ![]() Learning to properly pronounce words in a foreign language is something most Americans don't do. Of course, most Americans don't properly pronounce many words in English, either... ![]()
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The joy of driving a Volkswagen . I can think of a couple of better German cars that would give me joy in driving, and Volkswagen is not one of them.
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So can I, but we're not writing ad copy for VW. And, they weren't talking about the beetle, anyway..
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Mr. Garand (who inventedthe action) pronounced his last name 'jer-und'. I know my H&K USP .40 is Heckler & COKE, -- Sako - I may have to call the company.
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Generally speaking, other than English, European languages have standard rules for proper pronunciation of vowels. If the proper pronunciation differs from the standard there is generally a mark, an accent mark, a squiggle, two dots, a circle or a curved line or some other mark with the letter tell you to use the "other" standard rule.
Sako is Finnish, so should follow standard Finnish rules. English has its own rules a standard for regular words, another for foreign words adopted into English, and yet another for proper names. And then there is the way many people say them, which follows no rule at all. ![]()
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Don't know much about any rules but I've been shooting a Say-co Riihimaki for over 50 years. It's too late to change her name now...….
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I'll give you a pass, because its "her name". ![]() One of the English "rules" is that if its your name, the proper pronunciation is what ever you say it is, no matter how you spell it. You can spell it Mxppfty and if you say it's pronounced "Smith" then "Smith" IS the proper pronunciation of that name. For me, its always going to be "Sock-o" is a rifle, and "Say-ko" is a watch. ![]()
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![]() Mike Krzyzewski and everyone says "Shashefski"
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No, no, no. It's Sake "SAH-kay". It's a Japanese rice wine.
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I pronounce SAKO as sock-o, and Lap-wa as in Lapua I usually don't care how they pronounce Garand, Lapua or SAKO but I do give some shooters a heads-up at the range about the pronunciations --- Though most (here in Maryland) seem to still like pronouncing it Ga-rand (maybe it sounds like the M1 Garand is worth at least a grand to them and La-pua sounds cuter than saying Lap-wa.
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Something tells me that, if it hasn't been resolved in the NINETEEN years since this thread was started, we aren't going to resolve it now.
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I have been told that since it is Finnish, its pronunciation is: sock-o.
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In Kentucky-speak, it is definitely Say-ko, with a long a and long o. But we also call:
Versailles "Ver-sayles" Athens "AY-thens" (long A) Louisville "Loo-a-vul" named after King Lua. |
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I'm not that works. The fine city of LA is usually pronounced "Las An Gel ous"
But it's a Spanish word more or less pronounced " Los An go lace". Or something like that.
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I’ve always said Sako like Taco
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This is the gun version of the different ways ASUS computers is pronounced. Is it Ace-Us? is a A-Soose? Is it As-zeus? There are a couple more. I called them years ago for tech support on a motherboard and they said, Ace-us, but since then I've heard it all kinds of different ways, by employees and people selling their stuff.
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