He’s wrong in two places. Go find a video by Bob Geissele on YouTube, and listen to him pronounce his own name with 3 syllables. Why he went to all the trouble with the umlaut in Lüger, but not Shönauer, I don’t know, but the sound is a lot closer to “shane” than it is to “shown” — it’s a long “O”, but with the lips rounded and tongue forward, giving it more of a long-A tone. Seeing Luger spelled with the umlaut is pretty rare, and I doubt we’ll hear the end of “Looger” any time soon. Just don’t try to hail an über.
English is already a mixed up mess of spelling and pronunciation. We don’t need the extra burder of all these furrin’ werdz.
December 9th, 2019 at 6:19 pm
Carbine can be pronounced both ways, one comes directly from France and the other has been filtered through England first.
John Garand pronounced his name that way. But it has been pronounced the other way for as long as the gun has been in use.
December 9th, 2019 at 6:46 pm
Lop-wah.
Lah Pooh Ah.
I’ll likely never have a chance to mispronounce it in reference to anything I’m shooting, but if ever I do, I’m gonna.
December 9th, 2019 at 6:58 pm
Meh…
https://hk-usa.com/faqs/what-is-the-proper-way-to-pronounce-koch/
December 9th, 2019 at 8:51 pm
He’s wrong in two places. Go find a video by Bob Geissele on YouTube, and listen to him pronounce his own name with 3 syllables. Why he went to all the trouble with the umlaut in Lüger, but not Shönauer, I don’t know, but the sound is a lot closer to “shane” than it is to “shown” — it’s a long “O”, but with the lips rounded and tongue forward, giving it more of a long-A tone. Seeing Luger spelled with the umlaut is pretty rare, and I doubt we’ll hear the end of “Looger” any time soon. Just don’t try to hail an über.
English is already a mixed up mess of spelling and pronunciation. We don’t need the extra burder of all these furrin’ werdz.
December 9th, 2019 at 9:37 pm
“Lop-wah” = WTAF?……
Did they drink the bong-water again?
December 10th, 2019 at 2:25 am
One that I’ve never gotten was Hornady. I hear people say horn-aw-day. Seems off to me.
December 10th, 2019 at 11:47 am
“Kokh”? is he trying to say “cock” but getting squeamish?
December 10th, 2019 at 8:06 pm
@tincankilla: the “ch” in Koch is a glottal, not a hard “k” sound. I guess the “h” in Kokh is trying to signify that.
December 11th, 2019 at 9:36 am
Kosh?
Cock?
Coke?
Dude should really just change his name.
December 11th, 2019 at 1:45 pm
Back during my Navy flying days, we called the parachute and seat pan attach points our torso harness “Coke fittings”.