Mispronounced gun names

[cash_tx]

@Doug Hamilton
Auto correct pisses me off no end
Bob

Auto-correct is faxing infuriating.

;-)

 

[FlyGuy]

Sako is Sah-ko
Blaser is Blah-ser

 

[cajunchefray]

Not really a mispronunciation but I was rather too old to have it pointed out to me that there was a double meaning to “Mannlicher”….

Reminds me of a funny incident at the LGS in South Carolina 29 years ago. The shop is a pawnshop, but often had many interesting guns. The owner was a gun guy.

I asked “ Do you have any Ruger 77 Internationals?
The clerk, a guy I regularly dealt with, was puzzled.
I said “You know with a Mannlicher stock?

He firmly looked me straight in the eye and in his distinctive South Carolina drawl said:

“We don’t have any Man Lickers in here!”

I laughed my ass off, and he did too.

 

[Uncle Sauce]

Mike has a few...

 

[franzfmdavis]

Is Sako pronounced Socko or Sayko?

Socko

 

[Zambezi]

I love the American members giving the "correct" pronunciations...

The ACTUAL German pronunciation of Koch is: Cou (as in cough) and "g" as in Afrikaans "Gaan kak" or like you're clearing your throat (hawk tah in very recent modern social media parlance )

Sako is pronounced SAH-Ko in Finnish