How do you pronounce Lapua?

[Dutchman]

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Another I'd heard was Leupold. Here, everyone says 'Lee-a-pold'. But I'd heard it's really pronounced 'Lou-pold'.

My son-in-law and I go back and forth with this one. He says Leo-pold and I say Loo-pold. He does it just to irk me.

Sako = socko

sabot = say-bo

This has been interesting. There are so many words in our colloquial language we forget the origin of the word, the etymology.

Dutch

[hk940]

Tomato-Tomahto

[gumbo333]

Finally a topic that has some logic to it. Something that can be learned, But most of you people must live in Nor- Fork!

[Winger Ed.]

Like H-K is supposed to be Heckler and Coke.
Porch is what you sit on Porcha is the car.

It can be confusing around here.
Like the story about the hillbilly kid that went to the big city.
Upon arrival, he went around knocking on doors to fine odd jobs while looking for permanent employment.

He knocked on one. A nice little old lady answered. He asked if there was anything he could do to earn some money.
She told him the porch in the back needed painting, but she hadn't had time to do it herself.
He agreed, and she told him the paint & brushes were in the back by her garage.

Awhile later, he was done and went back to the door, got paid, and told her,
"Ma'am, I'm finished, but there isn't a porch back there..... It's actually a BMW".

[farmbif]

aint quite sure, closest I got to "lop wah" was some once fired norma

[405grain]

It's all about the local dialect. People are going to pronounce things different based on their local culture. In example folk from the Deep South are going to pronounce the same words differently than folks from New England or the South West. Usually these cultural differences in speech can tell you almost immediately what region people are from. In an example: I was in San Francisco last Saturday. I needed to cross a street, and waited for the light to change. There were a pair of ladies behind me having a conversation. When the light changed I started to count. In the time that it took me to walk across the street the lady behind me used the word "like" 26 times. I instantly deduced that she was from California.

[farmbif]

well then how do you pronounce leupold, Lou pold or is it lee uh pold

[Gtek]

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

[35 Rem]

It's all about the local dialect. People are going to pronounce things different based on their local culture. In example folk from the Deep South are going to pronounce the same words differently than folks from New England or the South West. Usually these cultural differences in speech can tell you almost immediately what region people are from. In an example: I was in San Francisco last Saturday. I needed to cross a street, and waited for the light to change. There were a pair of ladies behind me having a conversation. When the light changed I started to count. In the time that it took me to walk across the street the lady behind me used the word "like" 26 times. I instantly deduced that she was from California.

Or she was just under about the age of 30. I swear many of them can't utter a single sentence without injecting the word "like" every 3rd word. I hear that all the time in Alabama. Drives me crazy.

[jimb16]

I heard lah-poo-uh from the company president.

My Finnish heritage says the same.

[35 Rem]

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

What's a pilla? I sleep on a pillar! When Jeff Foxworthy was starting out, he'd say all those redneck expressions and then explain what they meant. I never needed the explanations!

[45workhorse]

A friend mine was at a gun show years ago, and asked the vendor if he had any 6mm Lapua brass. His answer was "we don't sell cheap foreign made brass!"
I like "cheap foreign made brass," when I can afford it!

[44Blam]

A friend of mine offered: "Would you like to shoot the 338 la...." and before he could say more, I injected "YEAH!!!"
Then he said "$5 / round"
And I said "mmmm noooo".
I don't remember his pronunciation mainly because of my interjection...

[technojock]

I found a website out of Finland and it had a link to hear the pronunciation. After clicking it a bunch of times, it sure sounded like Lap-wa to me.

As for the scopes made here in Oregon, it's Lew-pold or so a friend that works there told me... The word Koch in German means cook and is pronounce almost the same as it is in English. I don't remember a lot from my 3 years of college German but I'm still pretty good as pronunciation.


Tony

[hk940]

The wife and I were at Aldi's last week and she asked me if I would like some liverwurst. The girl stocking the shelf looked at us and said where are you from, I haven't heard that in years. Everybody down here (NC) calls it Braunschweiger.

[bedbugbilly]

I need to get out more . . . . all these years I been thinking "Lapua" was Cajun for Winchester . . . .

[scattershot]

While we’re on the subject, what’s the consensus on Sellier and Bellot?

[charlie b]

Like arguing over how to say VW or Volkswagon, the German version or English version. Jaguar in UK English or US English?

[lightman]

A sponsored shooter should certainly know the right pronunciation. Me and all of my shooting buddies pronounce it the way its spelled, which is apparently wrong.

[justindad]

I like to say things they way natives do. That’s why I use appuh-lah-chuh (think about someone tossing you an apple: apple-at-cha) instead of appuh-lay-shee-uh.