Pronunciations or Pronounciations - A Shooters Dictionary

[Glassaholic]

This might be a post better geared toward English majors Maybe it's my ADHD or maybe it's my Type A personality (or both), but pronunciations is something I get hung up on, if I'm pronouncing someones name wrong I want to get it right so I usually ask, but sometimes we hear something and realize, ooops, I've been saying that wrong for a while... so with this thread I will try to keep a running link of industry terms and names and you all can help me out.

1. Hornady - I've always thought it was Horn-uh-Dee but I hear so many guys saying Horn-uh-Day... which one is it?
2. Heckler and Koch - this one I know, I used to think Koch was pronounced like it looks - Kahch, but it's actually pronounced "Coke"
3. Kahles - Used to think this was Kay-less but it's actually pronounced Call-Us
4. Ogive - used to think this was pronounced how it looks - Oh-Give (with a strong I) but it's actually pronounced Oh-Jive
5. Leupold - still hear a lot of guys say Lee-Uh-Pold but as far as I know it is Loo-Pold

There's many more, but that's a good place to start, so let me know what you've run across. The hardest ones are obviously going to be the names of companies or products from foreign countries as much gets lost in translation, heck, half the people I meet mess up my last name and it's pretty easy (for me anyway ). Don't even get me started with some Gen Xer's first names, as a product of parents from the drug induced trances of the 60's and 70's we get names like Aleeyshya but still pronounced like Alicia, okay, let's not go down that rabbit hole

 

[jbell]

.....now do Hoppes.....

No one knows how to pronounce that shit

No shit

 

[Glassaholic]

.....now do Hoppes.....

No one knows how to pronounce that shit

I'm going to guess it's either Hops or Hoppies but I could be way off

 

[Huskydriver]

La- pua.... Lapua.

Honestly Leupold is pronounced s-h-i-t

 

[Glassaholic]

La- pua.... Lapua.

Honestly Leupold is pronounced s-h-i-t

I thought Lapua was pronounced Lap-wah not Lap-ooh-ahh even though the latter sounds much better

 

[lash]

Horny Daddy. Everybody knows that one.

 

[Huskydriver]

I thought Lapua was pronounced Lap-wah not Lap-ooh-ahh even though the latter sounds much better

That's what I said bra I just don't have that fancy booklearnin you got to spell it proper...

Graduated from one of lowest graduation rate school districts in the country

 

[lash]

Hodgden. I don’t know the correct way, but it’s too hard to say hodge-den, so it could be hog den or hodgen. I usually just laze out and say hog den.

 

[Glassaholic]

Hodgden. I don’t know the correct way, but it’s too hard to say hodge-den, so it could be hog den or hodgen. I usually just laze out and say hog den.

Always pronounced that Hoj-en, but I've heard all over the place with that one... One trick I've used in the past is finding if the company has a youtube video and listen to how reps from the company say the word, but if English is a second language for them or they're from down south then that might not help

 

[Malum Prohibitum]

Hornady - I've always thought it was Horn-uh-Dee but I hear so many guys saying Horn-uh-Day... which one is it?

No reason why it should have an A in there anywhere. No day on the end.

1. Heckler and Koch - this one I know, I used to think Koch was pronounced like it looks - Kahch, but it's actually pronounced "Coke"

Agree

1. Kahles - Used to think this was Kay-less but it's actually pronounced Call-Us

Kahles is German, so like H&K and Leupold, you need to look at German for the pronunciation. The e in German is pronounced more like the ay in day. So Call/ays

1. Ogive - used to think this was pronounced how it looks - Oh-Give (with a strong I) but it's actually pronounced Oh-Jive

Oh, no idea, lol. It is French in origin. Nothing makes sense to me if it is French. Google says you are correct on the Oh-Jive. It is an old architectural term, relating to the diagonal of an arch, which is the shape of that area of the bullet.

1. Leupold - still hear a lot of guys say Lee-Uh-Pold but as far as I know it is Loo-Pold

Correct, again.

 

[Malum Prohibitum]

Hodgden. I don’t know the correct way, but it’s too hard to say hodge-den, so it could be hog den or hodgen. I usually just laze out and say hog den.

Uh, oh. I have been saying Hog-den.

Which is obviously wrong. It ends in on, not en. Hodgdon.

Internet says . . . haaj/dn. I will try to remember.

 

[rtB]

I just order stuff online. If someone comes over at the range to 'talk gun stuff' I point at my ear and shake my head left right. They eventually wonder off.

 

[Father O’blivion]

Casul. Castle? Casool? Regardless, big bangs.

 

[hafejd30]

Spelling test:

Creedmore
Creedmoor

 

[Redmanss]

Spelling test:

Creedmore
Creedmoor
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M-A-N-B-U-N

 

[Glassaholic]

M-A-N-B-U-N

I shoot 308 and 6.5 Creedmoor out of my LMT, gotta say I love the Creedmoor so looks like I'm Ray Romano here Clearly Kevin James is the 308 shooter



Question, if Creedmoor = manbun, then what is PRC?

 

[Glassaholic]

Uh, oh. I have been saying Hog-den.

Which is obviously wrong. It ends in on, not en. Hodgdon.

Internet says . . . haaj/dn. I will try to remember.

Hmmmm, I think that's an ice cream

 

[Mike Casselton]

I just order stuff online. If someone comes over at the range to 'talk gun stuff' I point at my ear and shake my head left right. They eventually wonder off.

Wander.
Just sayin.

 

[Mike Casselton]

Swarovski.

Swar-ov-ski. Just like it's spelled.

I've heard:
Suh-wor-skee
Suh-vor-skee
Sore-ski
Suave-skee
And, the most popular, Swaros

 

[Glassaholic]

Swarovski.

Swar-ov-ski. Just like it's spelled.

I've heard:
Suh-wor-skee
Suh-vor-skee
Sore-ski
Suave-skee
And, the most popular, Swaros

The German's don't have a W sound, instead w's are pronounced as v's, so it should actually be Svar-ahv-ski

 

[Mike Casselton]

Let's really dig into this shit.

Q: What grain are you running?

What? Do you mean weight?

Yeah, grain weight.

No dumbass, grains is a unit of measurement. You express it with a number, but you don't ask what grain weight.



Apply the above to velocity.

It's not, What is your FPS, FFS.

It's, what is your velocity?

The only way you'll get something that's not in grains/FPS is from some dam You're a Peein.

 

[Mike Casselton]

The German's don't have a W sound, instead w's are pronounced as v's, so it should actually be Svar-ahv-ski

True

 

[carbonbased]

The French Skeletor really has me confused. Can u help me Glassy

 

[CamW]

Lapua Scenar bullets
Is it pronounced See-nar or Skee-nar?
I've heard it both ways.

 

[Im2bent]

 

[Sniff]

Car-biiine or Car-beeen?

 

[Glassaholic]

Lapua Scenar bullets
Is it pronounced See-nar or Skee-nar?
I've heard it both ways.

Good one, I've always said See-nar but could be wrong...

 

[GUN NUT in IA]

OK.
Now do Garand.

 

[Glassaholic]

The French Skeletor really has me confused. Can u help me Glassy

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Oh my gosh, you actually got me to do that, that is the sad part

 

[carbonbased]

“Particular individual” is a completely retarded phrase.

Tangentially related to firearms as cops tend to use the phrase extensively.

Way worse than ATM machine and “could care less”.

 

[carbonbased]

Oh my gosh, you actually got me to do that, that is the sad part

I’m ten yrs old. I laugh every time I press the play button.

 

[Baron23]

I thought Lapua was pronounced Lap-wah not Lap-ooh-ahh even though the latter sounds much better

It is Lap-wah...but for Americans it seems much easier to pronounce it Lap-ooh-ahh.

Heard it pronounced by a Lapua rep on a vid from Shot Show.

 

[Baron23]

Good one, I've always said See-nar but could be wrong...

I think you are right on that one too.

 

[carbonbased]

Swarovski.

Swar-ov-ski. Just like it's spelled.

I've heard:
Suh-wor-skee
Suh-vor-skee
Sore-ski
Suave-skee
And, the most popular, Swaros

Simple. I see your problem. You need to purse the lips more, place the tongue on the roof of your mouth and repeat after me: “T͟Hōz thēving pātʹənt ˈtrō-llz”.


Read on from this link…takes some time.

TL;DR = @koshkin found that Swaro has a stupid prob invalid patent that limits FOV on certain scopes. Leica Europe sued and invalidated it there. They lost in Britain. Swaro is too scared to go after giants like Vortex (who ignore the patent) so it affects smaller Euro players like S&B on scopes imported to the USA.

No challenges yet in USA b/c it’s really expensive to litigate. Upshot is much of the world gets fancy scopes WITH higher FOV (S&B 6-36) while we in the USA get artificially limited yet still $$$ scopes.

 

[lash]

Question, if Creedmoor = manbun, then what is PRC?

 

[StrayDog]

Area 419

Is it 4 one nine? 4 nineteen?

 

[lash]

Swarovski.

Swar-ov-ski. Just like it's spelled.

I've heard:
Suh-wor-skee
Suh-vor-skee
Sore-ski
Suave-skee
And, the most popular, Swaros

The German's don't have a W sound, instead w's are pronounced as v's, so it should actually be Svar-ahv-ski

 

[carbonbased]

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Google is from the Deep South. Settles it.

 

[Maggot]

Dickhead

Dik-hed

Or the alternative pronunciation

@308pirate

 

[kenny1773]

.....now do Hoppes.....

No one knows how to pronounce that shit

Dave knows

 

[rtB]

Dave knows

Hoppies? HOPPIES? Screw that. I'm not saying "hoppies number nine".

 

[Redmanss]

Question, if Creedmoor = manbun, then what is PRC?

M-U-L-L-E-T

 

[Bullfrog08]

Im gonna have all this shit so messed up now. Ive finally settled on pronounciations the last few years, so fuck this thread!

 

[kenny1773]

hoppies, hopies, hopeyes, herpies

As long as you know what product am talking about, who gives a fuck
breath in enough of the #9 and you just won't care anymore

 

[carbonbased]

hoppies, hopies, hopeyes, herpies

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As long as you know what product am talking about, who gives a fuck
breath in enough of the #9 and you just won't care anymore

kenny’s hitting the bong too much and harshing our mellow, maaaannnn let us have our fun ok maaaannn

 

[Mike Casselton]

hoppies, hopies, hopeyes, herpies

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As long as you know what product am talking about, who gives a fuck
breath in enough of the #9 and you just won't care anymore

Breathe. The act of breathing.

Breath. That funky-assed smell emanating from your pie hole.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Geissele?

And no, it's NOT Tom Brady's ex-wife...

 

[LeftyJason]

Geissele?

And no, it's NOT Tom Brady's ex-wife...

Ive always pronounced it guys-Lee.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Ive always pronounced it guys-Lee.

Same here. But plenty of stories from gun shops about people asking for "Giselle" stuff. Nah, yall gotta go talk to Tom Brady (before 2023)

 

[Maggot]

Ive always pronounced it guys-Lee.

Guyz elle