Rifle Scopes How is "Kahles" pronounced?

[FarSighted]

You'd think that someone willing to spend over 1K on a riflescope would learn it's not Sa-VOR-skee.

 

[roamin]

Who cares. You think foreigners spend any time learning proper pronunciation of American companies? I'll say it which ever way I choose and if that bothers you then call the police.

 

[mattwaage1]

I say "Calz"

I'm wrong.

I'll keep saying it though!

 

[Swamplord]

Still hear guys screw up Bart-Line into Bart-Leen and Kree-ger to Kry-ger

 

[perttime]

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.......

When there is a long vowel in Finnish, you have two vowel letters showing it. A Finnish word always has accent at the beginning.

 

[308pirate]

When there is a long vowel in Finnish, you have two vowel letters showing it. A Finnish word always has accent at the beginning.

Thank you for the correction. I assume you're Finnish based on your avatar?

 

[perttime]

Thank you for the correction. I assume you're Finnish based on your avatar?

Correct.
When I first saw Peanuts comics on TV, with Finnish subtitles, I couldn't get the spelling contests. I thought: "You hear the sound, so it is obvious which letter will correspond". Then we started learning English, Swedish, German....

Finnish spelling vs. pronunciation is very consistent. When you see a letter, there's just one sound that can correspond to it, in pronunciation - with few minor exceptions. Like, in Lapua, both "a" letters produce the same sound: "ah". If you have to divide Lapua into syllables, it actually goes la-pu-a.

 

[supercorndogs]

I used to subscribe to 4 Wheel and Offload magazine. The editor was named Rick Pewe.

 

[308pirate]

Correct.
When I first saw Peanuts comics on TV, with Finnish subtitles, I couldn't get the spelling contests. I thought: "You hear the sound, so it is obvious which letter will correspond". Then we started learning English, Swedish, German....

Finnish spelling vs. pronunciation is very consistent. When you see a letter, there's just one sound that can correspond to it, in pronunciation - with few minor exceptions. Like, in Lapua, both "a" letters produce the same sound: "ah". If you have to divide Lapua into syllables, it actually goes la-pu-a.

I had a similar issue learning to speak English a long time ago (Spanish is my native language)

I was really fucking confused how the same freaking letter could sound 3 - 5 different ways depending on the word it's used in, and there are no accent marks (like in Spanish) to help you out.