In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
In life: We are given tests, and learn lessons.
OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs pronounces it "Lah-Poo-Ah". That's good enough for me!
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.
Do you refer to countries in their native tongue or in English, eg, Deutschland or Germany, Nippon or Japan?
A Finish friend of mine says Lah-poo-ah, with no emphasis on any one syllable. A sort of monotone pronunciation.
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
Certified Cajun
Proud Member of The Basket of Deplorables
" Let's Go Brandon !"
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.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:7
I've lived here all my life and I pronounce it Orygun. Only slightly different than you but I'm originally from Portland...
Tony
Hi, my name is Tony and I'm addicted to gunpowder.
AKA Geezerbiker
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.
I seriously doubt that the pronunciation matters if you’re happen to be on the receiving end
Long, Wide, Deep, and Without Hesitation!
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
Certified Cajun
Proud Member of The Basket of Deplorables
" Let's Go Brandon !"
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.
Quis Quis Quis, Quis Liberat Canes
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I LIKE IKE
When I say Lah-Poo-Ah nobody mistakes it for Nosler
M. Stenback
Lop-wa
Soc-o
Lu-pold
Grumpy Old Man With A Gun....... Do Not Touch !!
Say - Bo
Gerrund
Free - Man (That's me!)
I pronounce Lapua.....too-expensive-now-I'm-retired.
NRA Life 1992
My avatar is almost a dead ringer for my little buddy Chico. Six pounds of mean that thought he was a Pit Bull. Miss that little guy.
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"
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |