How do you pronounce Polygonal

[Trey45]

I've heard several different pronunciations, just curious how you pronounce it.

As in, "Those Glocks have polygonal rifling".

[9.3X62AL]

I'm no hog-Latin scholar, I just cast my vote as I say it.

[swheeler]

. po·lyg o·nal (p -l
g -n l)

[S.R.Custom]

How you pronounce it depends on whether you're Mormon or not.

[Trey45]

How you pronounce it depends on whether you're Mormon or not.

Thanks, I appreciate that, now I have to clean up iced tea from all over the dern place.

[para45lda]

Mormon - too funny!!

[tdd4570]

I thought it depended on if you were from the South or not.

[MT Gianni]

I go with Polly gone uhl, sory of a dip-thong between the al and the ill.

[SeabeeMan]

I was thinking the same thing about the Mormon pronunciation. My guess would be emphasis on the pOLygonal, so poly would be pronounced like you would pronounce the name Molly.

[sqlbullet]

I am a mormon... I pronounce it polly-gone-all and so do all my wives.

(for those not aware, it is a huge inside joke among the mormon community that we all have many wives. The practice is not sanctioned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In fact, even "sympathizing" with a polygamist sect if grounds to lose your privilege to enter a Mormon temple.

There are fringe groups whose ancestors were LDS who still practice polygamy. They are a small minority of the population in the mountain west. Unfortunately, they are the ones usually on the news.

Oh, and I only have one wife, and it will stay that way.)

[geargnasher]

None of the above. I'm from Texas, so it's "pulIg-Unull". Almost "Pligunall". Slight emphasis on the "i" depending on how much tobacco I have wedged in my cheek.

Gear

[rockrat]

po-lyg-gonal with the two "g" intonations flowing together. Kind of quiet on the first and majority on the second g.

[williamwaco]

Well,

I probably don't know what I am talking about, if you doubt it ask my wife.

I only studied mathematics for 8 years but every mathematics professor and student I ever heard say the word said pulligunul all run together with the accent on the ig

But the root was Pollygun.




Happy New Year!


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[Dale in Louisiana]

"plig-uh-NAL"

dale in Louisiana

[pmeisel]

I say "that funny weird no good rifling in those tupperware guns"..... :-)

[williamwaco]

I DO wish you hadn't asked that question. I never gave it a thought before now but a polygon is a geometric shape consisting of three or more STRAIGHT sides.

That rifling method has NO straight sides. It is not a polygon. It is not a polygonal shape.


Conventional rifling has at least two and in some cases three straight sides. Conventional rifling is more polygonal than polygonal rifling.


Bored old mathematician rambling.




Happy New Year.


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[Ohio Rusty]

If you're canadian there an 'Eh at the end of polygonal ....
Ohio Rusty ><>

[stubshaft]

I DO wish you hadn't asked that question. I never gave it a thought before now but a polygon is a geometric shape consisting of three or more STRAIGHT sides.

That rifling method has NO straight sides. It is not a polygon. It is not a polygonal shape.


Conventional rifling has at least two and in some cases three straight sides. Conventional rifling is more polygonal than polygonal rifling.


Bored old mathematician rambling.

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Uh Oh, I feel a Sticky coming on...:roll:

[fatnhappy]

I pronounce it exactly as it's spelled

pall e gone uhl

[oneokie]

Polly Gone Al

[onesonek]

. po·lyg o·nal (p -l
g -n l)


my dictionary interpretation,,,,,pah-league-ah-nahl




I DO wish you hadn't asked that question. I never gave it a thought before now but a polygon is a geometric shape consisting of three or more STRAIGHT sides.

True, but here is also a second definition,,,": a closed figure on a sphere bounded by arcs of great circles."
Now if I read that right and being no mathematician, I'm guessing here,,,,,but if you draw a imaginary line between the high points or peaks, you have a polygon,,,correct??? Hence polygonal rifled or rifling, resulting from rounded peaks and valleys configured in a circle.




That rifling method has NO straight sides. It is not a polygon. It is not a polygonal shape.


Conventional rifling has at least two and in some cases three straight sides. Conventional rifling is more polygonal than polygonal rifling.


Bored old mathematician rambling.




Happy New Year.


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[hiram1]

o ya ask a redneck to say it.beats me thay will say .so beets me but did you see them hogs

[DLCTEX]

I would have said poly gon al, similar to Penta gon +al. So I couldn't vote for any of the choices. Why would you change the pronunciation of a polygon just to add al?

[Trey45]

That's the very first choice.

[Bret4207]

None of the above. I'm from Texas, so it's "pulIg-Unull". Almost "Pligunall". Slight emphasis on the "i" depending on how much tobacco I have wedged in my cheek.

Gear

That sounds closest to how I say it.

[lavenatti]

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=polygonal&submit=Submit

Online pronunciation dictionary.

[LUBEDUDE]

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=polygonal&submit=Submit

Online pronunciation dictionary.


Dats how I say it, but without the french accent.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

I fell in love polygonal rifling when I bought my first Israeli made Baby Eagle...maybe 15 years ago or so. Soooo easy to clean.
I have never shot a Glock...so I don't know if they are the same ???

Correctly or incorrectly,
I tend to pronouce everything phonetically...SO, I say
Polly-gone-al
Jon

[blackthorn]

Its not even January first and we're this bored?? Cabin fever?? EH?

[onesonek]

Its not even January first and we're this bored?? Cabin fever?? EH?

:smile: seems so

[azrednek]

I found it easier to refer to it as "poly rifling".

This reminds me of my visit to the FN booth at the last NRA convention here in Phoenix. My buddy a totally blind Viet Nam vet was determined to get the correct pronunciation for Fabrique National. Everyone in the FN booth he asked all smiled and said it a bit different. One good natured FN rep said "now thats not a fair question, I'm from South Carolina".

[geargnasher]

You want a really good one, how about Husqvarna?

Gear

[DLCTEX]

That's the very first choice.

No, no e on gon, short O. You don't say Penta gone al.

[Mooseman]

You want a really good one, how about Husqvarna?

Gear

Thats easy... Husk varna !

[obssd1958]

I would have said poly gon al, similar to Penta gon +al. So I couldn't vote for any of the choices. Why would you change the pronunciation of a polygon just to add al?

Please, don't anyone make any inference because of my choice of examples, but -

heretic = hair uh tik'
heretical = huh ret' i cull - not = hair uh tickle'

just one example of "the English language has more exceptions than rules!"


Don

[Bret4207]

You want a really good one, how about Husqvarna?

Gear

According to an old Swede I met when I had the Husky dealership- "hussq (very skight "k" sound) -warna", or that's as close as I can come to it. The "hus" was almost a "hoos", but not quite.

[DCM]

I'm not Mormon but I pronounce it like one.

[geargnasher]

According to an old Swede I met when I had the Husky dealership- "hussq (very skight "k" sound) -warna", or that's as close as I can come to it. The "hus" was almost a "hoos", but not quite.

That's close to what I've heard too, perhaps a bit exaggerated, but sounds like "Hoosk-WARnya". Difficult for me to pronounce without sounding like a fake Russian accent.

Gear

[azrednek]

There are fringe groups whose ancestors were LDS who still practice polygamy. They are a small minority of the population in the mountain west. Unfortunately, they are the ones usually on the news.

I wouldn't mind belonging to one of those fringe groups. Have a wife casting, one sizing, one loading and a couple more capable of earning a few G's annually, preferably as CEO of a lead mining corporation.

I could spend all my time at the range and at the gun shop spending my wife's earnings.

[charlie3tuna]

I pronounce it phonetically, the first example given. It's also how my math professor said it, and he had a PhD...charlie

[randyrat]

Where did Poly go.

[btroj]

She is il with Lee and Al, that is where poly gon, randy.

[bhn22]

Number one, but you must say it really fast.

[KMac]

I am a mormon... I pronounce it polly-gone-all and so do all my wives.

(for those not aware, it is a huge inside joke among the mormon community that we all have many wives. The practice is not sanctioned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In fact, even "sympathizing" with a polygamist sect if grounds to lose your privilege to enter a Mormon temple.

There are fringe groups whose ancestors were LDS who still practice polygamy. They are a small minority of the population in the mountain west. Unfortunately, they are the ones usually on the news.

Oh, and I only have one wife, and it will stay that way.)
I travel for work all over the United states and Utah is one of my favorite places to go, because of guys like you. I always said that Mormons are the best people on earth, and Mormon backsliders are the second best people. They are just as honest and funny and hard working, they just like to have a little more fun.

[DRNurse1]

I say "that funny weird no good rifling in those tupperware guns"..... :-)


She is il with Lee and Al, that is where poly gon, randy.

Someone call Bad Water Bill. HE will have the best pronunciation, if we can figure out how to read what he writes.

And, Brad, they are all out behind the barn laughing at us trying to figure this out.

[Col4570]

Here it is,Pol as in Box,ig as in Pig,on as in Box,al as the guys name.Here we say Aluminium,in the USA you say Aluminum.Its like the old song,You say potatos I say potatoes,you say tomatos I say tomatoes.Regional accents are great as I found out whilst working in the US.Very often people would ask me to say something,so I would say Cor Blimey love a duck we have the same alphabet.:)

[fouronesix]

I've always pronounced it polly gon' ul. But did see on the news that a group in Utah is working on the issue.

[GT27]

That funny lookin' riflin'!:wink:

[montana_charlie]

pu LIG un ul - with the accent on the second syllable
Similar to pu LIG um ist

[Echo]

None of the above. I'm from Texas, so it's "pulIg-Unull". Almost "Pligunall". Slight emphasis on the "i" depending on how much tobacco I have wedged in my cheek.

Gear
Plus 1, minus the cud...

[jmort]

Poly gone ull

[hiram]

taugth some math



polly-gone-al

[Floydster]

Is cabin fever really getting this bad!!!:)

[Cmm_3940]

Polly gonna what?

[Southern Son]

I wouldn't mind belonging to one of those fringe groups. Have a wife casting, one sizing, one loading and a couple more capable of earning a few G's annually, preferably as CEO of a lead mining corporation.

I could spend all my time at the range and at the gun shop spending my wife's earnings.

azrednek,
Mate I think the rules are that you can have as many wives as you can look after, not as many wives as it takes to look after you. If it were that way, it would be worth putting up with the nagging, hen pecking, etc.

About the poly-whatsy-rifling, I am affraid that I just went eeny, meeny, miney, moe. You lot have such bad accents I don't know what the heck your on about. People keep telling me that you Yanks speak English, but I have yet to see any evidence to support that claim.:kidding:

[Col4570]

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Try this for size.

[osteodoc08]

Polly gone uhl for me.

Al is like Al sharp ton and has no business being remotely tired to anything gun related.

[NSP64]

Poly-gon-al

[Elkins45]

My Appalachian take on it isn't in the poll, because they all start with Paw. I say the first syllable as "Puh"

puh lig un uhl

[w5pv]

I was going to post the same but Us Southerns and Texicans speak the Queens English

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

you betcha ,well us sconies , as i hear we are called would say it poly-gon-il , don'tcha knoow but even that can change quite a bit as to what part of the state you are from or hung out in to long

but if I hung out down south to long it might start to end in AL

as for it being new finagled rifling , didn't Enfield rifles use it a hundred years ago


but (Husk i var nah) Is how I always have heard and pronounced da chain saw , da rifle , and da motorcycle

and by golly it is a bubbler ! I don't care what you call your water fountain

regional dialects are a lot of fun , and I actually hear a lot of people complaining that TV is killing regional dialect

my neighbor growing up was from up nort called batteries , Bat-rie with only 2 syllables

[Trey45]

I should add plignul to the choices. :lol:

[bearcove]

I don't

[white eagle]

poe lig an al ...don't say the last two (syl.?) to close together

[grampa243]

Poly-gon-al

[nanuk]

paw LIG uh nul


sounds like diagonal

[Old Dawg]

It is just Mormons. There are a lot of non-Mormon fringe sects that still practice polygamy. Even more that practice serial polygamy.

[Old Dawg]

With three apexes it would be a curvilinear triangle

[perotter]

I've avoided pronouncing it, but would likely pronounce it the same as I would spell the word in a spelling test.

in-cor-rect-lee

And I maybe didn't get that one right.

[Col4570]

Hexagonal,Octagonal,Polygonal.I am sure any will suffice as a description of the Rifling type.As for the pronunciation we all have our differing accents which make the world interesting and diverse.

[colt 357]

I just say them funny p word riflings

[Multigunner]

I DO wish you hadn't asked that question. I never gave it a thought before now but a polygon is a geometric shape consisting of three or more STRAIGHT sides.

That rifling method has NO straight sides. It is not a polygon. It is not a polygonal shape.


Conventional rifling has at least two and in some cases three straight sides. Conventional rifling is more polygonal than polygonal rifling.


Bored old mathematician rambling.



According to this the terminology differs between mathematicians an some other disciplines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon

The chart there suggests that the Whitworth hexagonal rifling would be polygonal though the hexagon is not often defined as polygonal.

[Multigunner]

Correction scratch that last sentence I had hexagon mixed up with another form.
Edit function does not work for some reason.

[popper]

Uhh, Glock?

[9.3X62AL]

Uhh, Glock?

CZ uses the form a bit, also. Oughta be a law.....

[Tar Heel]

It's pronounced Polygonal

[DoubleAdobe]

None of the above. I'm from Texas, so it's "pulIg-Unull". Almost "Pligunall". Slight emphasis on the "i" depending on how much tobacco I have wedged in my cheek.

Gear
That's the way I say it, which really isn't very often.:)

[DoubleAdobe]

azrednek,
Mate I think the rules are that you can have as many wives as you can look after, not as many wives as it takes to look after you. If it were that way, it would be worth putting up with the nagging, hen pecking, etc.

About the poly-whatsy-rifling, I am affraid that I just went eeny, meeny, miney, moe. You lot have such bad accents I don't know what the heck your on about. People keep telling me that you Yanks speak English, but I have yet to see any evidence to support that claim.:kidding:

Ha, both good points. My wife told me years ago because of my Mormon heritage that if I wanted more than one wife, she would be happy to choose them for me. She from time to time points out a candidate. You'll have to believe me, they are not the kind you or at least I would choose. Oh, well.
As to your second point, I know you are an Aussie, so that is a little different, but the same principle applies. Years ago I jokingly asked an Englishman who was yammering on, if he could please speak English. He kinda went crazy on me, hehe.

[.45Cole]

pole-ig-an-ill

[joelitespeed]

just tied it up!

[Just Duke]

. po·lyg o·nal (p -l
g -n l)
Yep......

[Just Duke]

Poly means many or multi
The suffix Gonal means shape