How do you pronounce Lapua?

[Winger Ed.]

I like to say things they way natives do.

Me too.
Like Shreveport, Louisiana.

If you say 'Shrev-ee-port' instead of Shree-port, the locals will ask, "You're not from around here are ya"?

[Froogal]

Leroy Jethro Gibbs pronounces it "Lah-Poo-Ah". That's good enough for me!

[hk940]

Depends where you live there is a town in NC and SC both spelled the same (Beaufort) but in NC it is pronounced BOH-fert in SC it is pronounced BEW-fert.

[charlie b]

Do you refer to countries in their native tongue or in English, eg, Deutschland or Germany, Nippon or Japan?

[DrLogik]

A Finish friend of mine says Lah-poo-ah, with no emphasis on any one syllable. A sort of monotone pronunciation.

[gwpercle]

In Louisiana ... how do you pronounce ... HEBERT

A - Bair ... I could never figure this one out ... just accepted it .

Lapua is one word I have seen for years in print but never had to speak or heard anyone say it . I have no idea what would be proper but being from Louisiana of Cajun-French descent ... would say ... La - Poo

Gary

[waco]

Does it really matter? There are people in this country that can’t even pronounce my state correctly. I live in Oregon. Pronounced Ory-Gun. Not Ory- gone.

[technojock]

I've lived here all my life and I pronounce it Orygun. Only slightly different than you but I'm originally from Portland...

Tony

[Finn45]

We say it simply Lapua, named after town Lapua. I was ten years old when coffins were lined up in tv news after Lapua cartridge factory explosion, some of it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapua_...tory_explosion

Now when some time has passed, Finns are probably able to digest a movie dramaticed after this tragedy, just released:
https://www.lapua-elokuva.fi/

If you watch this short trailer, narrator says between 0:17...0:19 in Finnish "Lapua 1976":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhU-udmrHL0

Lapua and few others can be listened here in very clear and plain and basic language, of course local language in different areas twists words in many ways, volume up:
https://fi.forvo.com/search/Lapua/
https://fi.forvo.com/search/Sako/fi/
https://fi.forvo.com/search/Vihtavuori/
https://fi.forvo.com/search/Tikka/fi/

Tfi, hth.

[poppy42]

I seriously doubt that the pronunciation matters if you’re happen to be on the receiving end

[gwpercle]

Me too.
Like Shreveport, Louisiana.

If you say 'Shrev-ee-port' instead of Shree-port, the locals will ask, "You're not from around here are ya"?

And when you go to New Orleans say it like a local as one word ...
... N'awlins ... and throw in a few D'awlins ... like ... "We going to the Economical to make groceries , Dawlin , you need anything !" You will blend right in ...
and the proper greeting is " Hey ... where Y'at !"
Gary
N. O. Yat by marriage
La. Cajun by Birth

[Shuz]

Who lays their head on the pilla and scrubs with a warsh rag?

Those who are from Pittsburgh. Home of the Stillers. How do yinz like dat!?

[frkelly74]

A guy once corrected me when I said Carcano with the second a said as a instead of Carcano with the second a said as ah. I have never gotten over it.

[fa38]

When I say Lah-Poo-Ah nobody mistakes it for Nosler

[Eddie Southgate]

Lop-wa
Soc-o
Lu-pold

[dondiego]

Say - Bo
Gerrund
Free - Man (That's me!)

[Slugster]

I pronounce Lapua.....too-expensive-now-I'm-retired.

[DWM]

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+...K-8K9xx_c,st:0

[ebb]

Jerry Clower told about his wife wanting to make some extra money so they went to a friends house and the friend gave her a brush and some green paint and told her to paint the porch out back. In a little while she came back, and Jerry's friend asked "did you paint the porch?" She replies "yes I painted the Porsche and the Bentley"

[MT Gianni]

Ok, how about "Kynoch"?

Knowing some folks with that last name, I always pronounced it as they did, Ki-nock.