A quick and easy poll for you reloaders…

[GeoDudeFlorida]

OK how about 30-06???

That’s pronounced emm two ball.

 

[higgite]

42-27... 4-2-2-7
to-may-toe... to-mah-toe
car-bean... car-byne.
When in doubt... write/right/rite it down.

 

[Bobaloo22]

42-27 and yes car-bean

 

[jmorris]

I would be OK with either.

Could even figure out what you were talking about if you said IMR the square root of 17,867,529..

I’d probably call it 42 27, I always say 3031 as 30 31.

 

[JmacD]

three fourths, three quarters, same thing.....

Very true. But one just sounds better when being yelled down from the scaffolding to the cut man…

 

[Steve51]

42, 27

Same as I pronounce other 4 digit powders; 41, 98; 57, 44; 30, 31; etc.

Except for 2400. Pronounce it as 24 hundred (there always has to be an exception).

 

[small town life]

What about I'm rrrrrr or I am are

 

[Charlie98]

Ahhh, six of one, half dozen of tha other....

.25 cents each, or 4 for a $1...

 

[doubleh]

except Unique

No Bullseye? Forty two- twenty seven for the poll.

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

What about I'm rrrrrr or I am are

It's that Pirate Powder.

I'm Arrrrr....

 

[Charlie98]

No Bullseye?

Nope. If I can't get it done with Unique, I'll hang up my reloading press.

In reality, however, I'd pick RedDot over Bullseye, given the choice.

 

[Mk-211]

I like to consider myself bilingual and pronounce it whatever way it's said, in the part of the country I'm in.

Being in the military and working for the railroad, have helped me become fluent in multiple languages.

 

[Charlie98]

Being in the military and working for the railroad, have helped me become fluent in multiple languages.

Being in the military, you find uses for words all over the place... including some used as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, all at the same time.

 

[Nipty]

4,22,7

 

[Mr_Flintstone]

It's funny that in the US, we pronounce numbers differently depending on what they are used for. Most people pronounce phone numbers and social security numbers one digit at a time while they typically pronounce dates and house addresses two digits at a time. So, 555-4227 would be Five-Five-Five, Four-Two-Two-Seven, but 4227 Elm Street would be pronounced Forty-Two, Twenty-Seven Elm Street.

 

[JmacD]

It's funny that in the US, we pronounce numbers differently depending on what they are used for. Most people pronounce phone numbers and social security numbers one digit at a time while they typically pronounce dates and house addresses two digits at a time. So, 555-4227 would be Five-Five-Five, Four-Two-Two-Seven, but 4227 Elm Street would be pronounced Forty-Two, Twenty-Seven Elm Street.

More confusing when you get to the locales where zero is pronounced “oh”…

 

[mstreddy]

Another in the forty-two, twenty-seven camp.

 

[Mark_Mark]

That’s pronounced emm two ball.

why emm two ball? that sounds really cool tho!

“You homies rocking the EMM 2 Ball!”

Going to start call things EMM 2!

 

[9mmepiphany]

4-2-2-7...like we used to say Oldsmobile 4-4-2, not four, forty-two or forty-four, two
I used to be a phone operator and we were taught to always say numbers individually so they could be written down as they were heard...avoids things like someone starting to write 4 when you say fourteen

why emm two ball? that sounds really cool tho!

 

[Click_Here]

four thousand two hundred twenty seven

 

[Yamifrk]

Forty two twenty seven for me. The Oldsmobile four forty two. Porsche is a nine eleven. I’m thinking it depends where you live. I’m all messed up born in Philadelphia raised in Wisconsin have lived in Northern Michigan for the last 36 years.

 

[JSneezy]

I've always pronounced it like this: IMR4227.

 

[JmacD]

like we used to say Oldsmobile 4-4-2

Forty two twenty seven for me. The Oldsmobile four forty two. Porsche is a nine eleven. I’m thinking it depends where you live. I’m all messed up born in Philadelphia raised in Wisconsin have lived in Northern Michigan for the last 36 years.

Depends yes. I think if I would have called someone’s 442 a four four two in the bunch I was around, they might have bent a crankshaft over my head. Lol.
It would be intriguing to know what section of the country the different “dialects” are from… I’ve heard the 918 called the “nine eighteen” and the 911 called the “nine one one”…
The geek in me is finding this pole fascinating. Lol

 

[Yamifrk]

Depends yes. I think if I would have called someone’s 442 a four four two in the bunch I was around, they might have bent a crankshaft over my head. Lol.
It would be intriguing to know what section of the country the different “dialects” are from… I’ve heard the 918 called the “nine eighteen” and the 911 called the “nine one one”…
The geek in me is finding this pole fascinating. Lol

If you are from Chicago it will be farty two twenty seven

 

[.308 Norma]

The geek in me is finding this pole fascinating. Lol

Me too.

the 911 called the “nine one one”…

For me, "nine-one-one" is the number you call in an emergency, but "nine-eleven" is the day the terrorists flew the airliners into the towers.