I've heard several different pronunciations, just curious how you pronounce it.
As in, "Those Glocks have polygonal rifling".
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I've heard several different pronunciations, just curious how you pronounce it.
As in, "Those Glocks have polygonal rifling".
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. po·lyg o·nal (p -l
g -n l)
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How you pronounce it depends on whether you're Mormon or not.
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Thanks, I appreciate that, now I have to clean up iced tea from all over the dern place.Originally Posted by S.R.Custom
Give us this day our daily lead.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
If you don't want 1984 you're going to need some 1776.
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Mormon - too funny!!
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I thought it depended on if you were from the South or not.
I go with Polly gone uhl, sory of a dip-thong between the al and the ill.
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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.
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.)
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.
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Last edited by geargnasher; 12-28-2011 at 04:26 PM.
po-lyg-gonal with the two "g" intonations flowing together. Kind of quiet on the first and majority on the second g.
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.
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"plig-uh-NAL"
dale in Louisiana
I say "that funny weird no good rifling in those tupperware guns".....
Paul
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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If you're canadian there an 'Eh at the end of polygonal ....
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I pronounce it exactly as it's spelled
pall e gone uhl
Polly Gone Al
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