Stuff that is mispronounced

[olbaid_dratsab]

So lets get us all on the same page.

What gun shit do you hear thats always mispronounced?

I hear
"Sig Sayer"
"Smith and Weston"
"nine-eleven"
"Luger" when folks talk about a Ruger MKI,MKII, or MKIII

[bigmattdaddywack]

I am really guilty of this. Leopuld instead of Leupold. Lee ah pulled compared to Lew poled. Leupold is the correct spelling and "Lew poled" is the correct pronunciation (well I fucking think so). I hear that damned red-headed Marine Colonel say it over and over again on the Guns and Ammo TV show.

[Towanda]

I hear people talk about "Ecotech" sights.

[majorhavoc]

"Reticule" instead of reticle.

[bigmattdaddywack]

I hear that damned red-headed Marine Colonel say it over and over again on the Guns and Ammo TV show.

He is red-headed, left-handed, and of smaller stature.... = Bad Ass Marine.

[Maverick299]

Does the use of "clip" when it's a "mag" fall into this category? That's a major pet peeve of mine.

[bigmattdaddywack]

Does the use of "clip" when it's a "mag" fall into this category? That's a major pet peeve of mine.

You are damned right it does!
It fits!

[olbaid_dratsab]

^well not so much because "clip" is actually pronounced "clip". Besides, thats an old one. We're on the same page with that by now.

What made me think of this was JamesCannon saying something about Saiga and how it isn't "say-guh" or something like that. I think it was in the SOns of Guns thread.


So, sigh-aye-ga?

[crypto]

unless you buy a Marlin or a browning, in which case they are still called clips by the manufacturer.

[Polley]

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[olbaid_dratsab]

unless you buy a Marlin or a browning, in which case they are still called clips by the manufacturer.

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Manufacturers of gun stuff arn't always right.

[crypto]

I dunno, when you're 130 years old and were around for the birth of metallic cartridge firearms, you can call shit what you want.


My holy grail of firearms research will be finding a engineering diagram drawn by JMB that says 'clip'

[olbaid_dratsab]

^ You would make every thread on clip vs mag burst into flames. Find eveidence that he pronounced it "clipe" too. That would be the shite.

[UndeadInfidel]

^well not so much because "clip" is actually pronounced "clip". Besides, thats an old one. We're on the same page with that by now.

What made me think of this was JamesCannon saying something about Saiga and how it isn't "say-guh" or something like that. I think it was in the SOns of Guns thread.


So, sigh-aye-ga?

Not quite. I believe it should be pronounce "sigh-gah". If you know what a taiga (type of forest in Siberia) is, it's pronounced the same way.

"Carbine."

Car-bine, car-bean. I, myself, prefer the first.

I did a little research on this, and both pronunciations are considered acceptable depending on the dialect of the area. Typically the south and western parts of the country say "Carbean" while the northeasterners say "Carbighn". I've seen it pronounced both ways on TV.



Speaking of Sons of Guns, every time they say "InTEHgrally" it just rubs me the wrong way. I think it's because they're placing emphasis on the wrong syllable?

[bigmattdaddywack]

I believe I pronounce carbine as car-bean more often than car-bine. I probably use both interchangeably and really don't notice it.

I pronounce Saiga as Sigh-ga. Which is pronounced like Taiga.

Bowie knife is correctly pronounced boo-wee, not bow-ee. The knife is named after Jim Bowie(more or less by stories fueled about how he used it in a fight on a sandbar near Natchez . Also the knife was probably more in appearance to a Ka-Bar in size but the true nature of its design is lost to history) and not David Bowie of stuffed package Labyrinth fame.

Also Minie Ball is correctly uttered by saying Min-nay and not min-nee.

[zulu5oscar]

I hate the cash-ay referring to a cache

[BigDaddyTX]

I hate the cash-ay referring to a cache

So much this.

[majorhavoc]

Sootch00 on Youtube always mispronouces the word "accessories" as "ass-essories". Love the guy's videos, but for some reason that bugs the crap out of me.

And since this thread has the potential to turn into a smugfest: until I was in my twenties, I thought the expression "for all intents and purposes" was "for all intensive purposes."

[KYZHunters]

From another generation: "Flying shrapmetal" luckily I had my "flapjacket"
Also, surprisingly, the "60-cal" or M60 as the rest of us called it, fired smaller projectiles than the 50-cal.
Heard this frequently from Gunny Mahone, aka "the worlds dumbest Marine", who missed his own name three times while calling roll. On the third shot, saying, "Mahoney? Where you at boy?" Someone in the ranks said, "That's you, Gunny." He never missed a beat, saying, "Oh, present!"

[Confucius]

I've heard Garand a few different ways.
Presumably one of them is right...

[TerryGecko]

I've heard Noveske pronounced "Novsky" more than a few times.

[crypto]

People constantly say Saiga as "sega" or Say-gah" and it annoys me.

[DrGonzo]

I used to hear this one all the time in the Corps. The word is "lackadaisical", meaning lacking life, spirit, or zest. Another word is "lax", meaning loose, or not stringent. However, "laxidaisical" is not a word. I know our Drill Instructors and Platoon Sergeants used to warn us against becoming "laxidaisical" all the time, but that still doesn't put it in the dictionary. And I hear it all the time from active/prior service military. I heard it more than once over a weekend at a class I took at Ft Lewis, and again while watching "Top Shot".

Also, Calvary is where Jesus is thought to be crucified. The cavalry is who you call when when you're outmanned, outgunned and outclassed.

Hopefully they'll be riding bears.

[DrGonzo]

Mispronouncing "Geissele" doesn't bother me at all, since most people have trouble with it, and honestly, it's a goofy name to my ears, tongue and brain.