Rifle Scopes How is "Kahles" pronounced?
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Correct. No long vowels in German.
No long vowels in Finnish either. Sako is pronounced Sah-ko, Not Say-kou.
I also asked a friend who emigrated from Sweden the correct pronunciation of Lapua. He told me it's LAh-pua with the accent on the first "a", he kinds laughs when he hears Lah-pUa.......
Laupua is not pronounced lah-poo-ah either.
It’s pronounced lopwah’ almost in one syllable. Or 1.5 syllables if you wish.
It’s pronounced lopwah’ almost in one syllable. Or 1.5 syllables if you wish.
Yeah, my unsophisticated & igernent pronounciation of Kahles got corrected the first time I called EuroOptic to order one....never felt so much like a hick from the sticks while attempting to spend that kind of $$$ before.
I guess I'd have to say that yes, they were tactful in correcting me. I'd been pronouncing it 'kayles' since the early '60s when I started reading Dad's old Shooters Bibles catalogs....doubt there were very many other farmers & cowboys out here that knew the difference either....doesn't really matter I guess, I wound up buying six of the K624i AMRs over the years since 2014, and still like them very much, thank you.
The Austrians corrected Mike his first time meeting them, they told him it was like Call-Us 
If it were an American English word, it'd probably be spelled "caullus". The "a" sound is like "aww".
Oh, we should do all the German/Austrian glass makers...
We can expand to HK, dachshund, and several others.
Want to have you mind blown? Sausage is “Wurst” in German (pronounced like “vorst” in English). Wiener is an adjective for Wiens...which is German for Vienna... Wienerschitzel is schnitzel prepared in the style of Vienna and not a sausage at all.
We can expand to HK, dachshund, and several others.
Want to have you mind blown? Sausage is “Wurst” in German (pronounced like “vorst” in English). Wiener is an adjective for Wiens...which is German for Vienna... Wienerschitzel is schnitzel prepared in the style of Vienna and not a sausage at all.
If they keep making scopes as good as that k525, I may need to Kahlmore to buy a few others.
Kales. i.e. There are 2 Kales below:
Many people get my last name wrong as well. Jeff Huber who used to work for Kahles told me it was pronounced Call-less because, like others, I always thought it was Kay-less. Heckler and Koch is another one I hear butchered.
Not as difficult (?) but how many butchered pronunciations of Swarovski have you heard? That's my fave.
And then there's Lederhosen Oddly enough, most people can pronounce Heineken and Budweiser... hmmm, I wonder why that is But of course, for most German's there is no "w" sound which is pronounced as "v"
Oddly enough, most people can pronounce Heineken and Budweiser... hmmm, I wonder why that is But of course, for most German's there is no "w" sound which is pronounced as "v"
I'm a redneck so I have been saying K'allles Which is wrong. I called them a week or two ago to run a SN on a scope. When the lady answered the phone I tried to say it three different ways and all were incorrect. She said it "K~Less"
The Austrians corrected Mike his first time meeting them, they told him it was like Call-Us
I did call you guys. You know...for the K318i. Good stuff.
**** Clearly I'm bored this afternoon!
My favorite is the 62 ways I've heard people say Leupold.
I thought it was either kales or calls. Either like kale the vegetable, as shown above, but with an s added or calls like she calls the children in for dinner. Both using one syllable.
call-less or kale-less? Both having two syllables.
call-less or kale-less? Both having two syllables.
Kahles...a guy from Boston saying Car, followed by “less”. I got corrected at a local shop about that a few years ago.
I still call Leupold “Lee-Ah-pold” though, “loop-old” just sounds odd to me.
And I don’t care what’s right or wrong, calling a Nightforce ATACR an “attacker” just sounds stupid. I could see a-tac-r, but I’ll still say out each letter...A T A C R.
I still call Leupold “Lee-Ah-pold” though, “loop-old” just sounds odd to me.
And I don’t care what’s right or wrong, calling a Nightforce ATACR an “attacker” just sounds stupid. I could see a-tac-r, but I’ll still say out each letter...A T A C R.
I like A TAC R or Attacker ...
it's how I would read it if it was a license plate
it's how I would read it if it was a license plate
One that I didn’t realize kicked my ass until I tried spitting it out at a show was “Anschutz”.
The guy looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language...to me, “an-shuts” seemed correct, he had some spin on it like “an-sh-wets”, another guy spit out “un-shoots”. So I’m still lost, don’t think I’ve said the word out loud since.
I spend a stupid amount of time while driving around trying to figure out meanings behind custom plates.
The guy looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language...to me, “an-shuts” seemed correct, he had some spin on it like “an-sh-wets”, another guy spit out “un-shoots”. So I’m still lost, don’t think I’ve said the word out loud since.
I spend a stupid amount of time while driving around trying to figure out meanings behind custom plates.
Six!!!!
I'm down to three - sold two with rifles when a customer wanted to keep the K624i that it had on it, and another one out-right. Now have one Gen II, and a couple of Gen IIIs. Keep looking at the K525i, but will wait until I can sell off some rifles I've built to sell before investing in any more high-end optics.
I've heard Lapua call it "la-poo-wah", all one word and running on but not quite a "lopwah". Isn't that in some of their literature? I'd have to look. It is all soft vowels which is more common across the drink.
But Kahles? Pretty sure it's pronounced like "balls" but with a K or C. So "calls" or "kalls". Pretty sure the "e" is silent along with the "h".
If I'm wrong I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm right on this one. My last name is pronounced a few different ways but since it's European in nature, it has all soft vowels. However, Americans insist on finding hard vowels in words they haven't heard. It's very common and I'm guilty of it too. It's safer to pronounce something you don't know with soft vowels though, less chance of being corrected by someone in the know.
I usually let the customer say it first and repeat their version
^^^ this wins hands down ^^^
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