How do you pronounce these words:

[GunGoBoom]

"Sabot" - I've always said "Saa' - bow" or "Say' - bow", but yesterday I heard "Saa' - but"

Dang, forgot the other gun-related word I heard different ways yesterday....I'll post when I think of it.

 

[Feanaro]

Something like "să-bō" or "sa-bow". If that sounds weird, that is because the word is French.

 

[GLOCK19XDSC]

Tankers in my former unit used to pronounce it "say-bot."

 

[RecoilRob]

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=sabot

Beside the word, there are a couple of speaker looking icons....click and a window will open and a fellow will speak the word for you.

It sounds like saa-but. I kind of like the American sounding word rather than the Froglike sA-bO.

 

[jefnvk]

If you walk into a store around here and ask for some sa-bows, you are gonna get a weird look. Sa-but around here.

 

[cfabe]

The word is french, and " Sa-bow" is correct.

When you say pronounce "hors d'oeuvres" do you say "whores de ouv-reZ" or "or-derves" ?

Or for laissez-faire, "lay-seZ fair-y" or "lay-say fair" ?

All are accepted english words, adopted from french, and the french pronounciation is correct.

 

[Eightball]

whores de ouv-reZ

Depends. Are they present ? I say "sa-bot" just like it's spelled--besides, it's French, so who cares ? They hate us in general, we can corrupt their language. Either that, or I'm a redneck to begin with

 

[Husker1911]

Geez, if it weren't for Americans riding to the rescue in two world wars, the pronunciation would definitely have a Germanic influence!

 

[Cesiumsponge]

Ahh there was a thread about this last month...and it included Steyr, carbine, and a few others for discussion too I've never heard anyone pronounce sabot properly here, so I just go with the flow or I have to go into a Cliff Claven rant on the French origins.

I'll have to add a non-gun related word that has bugged me...
How does one pronounce Courvoisier? I'd like one flute of sham-pag-knee please!

 

[Infidel]

How does one pronounce Courvoisier?

Coor vwah see ay?

 

[entropy]

Cwer-vo-say. BTW, if you ask for say-bow slugs around here, this is the look you get: Sa-BOT is how most around here pronounce it.

Iv'e never drank Courvoisier, so I could be wrong on the pronunciation.

 

[jdkelly]

I think around here it sounds like Co vass e air.

I think it's a Cognac (Con Yak), fancy Brandy.



Respectfully,


jkelly

 

[Aguila Blanca]

Coor-vwah'-zeeyay or coor-vwah'-zyay would be close.

 

[Preacherman]

The correctness of one's pronunciation of Courvoisier is inversely proportional to the quantity of Courvoisier one has taken on board...

 

[Cesiumsponge]

Yeah, Courvoisier is a cognac. Its discouraging trying to figure out how to pronounce a lot of liquor labels.

This firearm-related term popped into my head--Sig Sauer

I've heard Sauer pronounced "sour" and "soar". Which is it? I just say "SIG"

 

[Wedge]

Coor-vwah'-zeeyay or coor-vwah'-zyay would be close

I like cerveza myself...not one for cognac...oh we were talking about shoes...

I pronounce it "sah bo". As in, skilled wiht a bo-staff.

 

[hillbilly]

I think you'll find "sabot" related to another word: "sabotage."

Most folks usually say that word "sah-buh-tajz" or "sah-boh-tajz."

I don't know anyone who says "Sa-butt-ayge"

The word "sabot" means wooden shoe, among other things, and "sabotage" was the act of ruining machinery by throwing a wooden shoe into the works.

The "sabot" for shotgun slugs or muzzleloaders is a "little shoe" that fits around the projectile. Hence "sah-bow" or "say-bow."

Lots of words get corrupted once they get into another language.

For example, there is a state park in Arkansas called "Petit Jean." I won't recant the whole story of where the name comes from.

But in French, it would be pronounced "Puh-teet Zhawn."

In Arkie, it gets pronounced "Petty Gene."


hillbilly

 

[Cesiumsponge]

I like cerveza myself...not one for cognac...

I can manage pronunciation of Spanish words since the phonetics are similar to English, but French is beyond me since I never took a class in it

 

[Kurush]

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "say-bow" or "sah-bow". There are lots of French words in English that are pronounced with English rules, how do y'all pronounce Colonel? I think "hors d'oeuvres" is kind of a special case because most people say "orderves" but spell it as "appetizers".

 

[Snake Eyes]

When you say pronounce "hors d'oeuvres".....

As a child, I could never understand why my mother wanted to eat "whores ovaries".

Imagine my therapy bills.

 

[22-rimfire]

Hillbilly: I used to camp at Petti Jean SP frequently back when I lived in Texas. Nice little park and it has a nice story behind it. Mt Nebo.... sounds like a church.

I always serve "horse dervies" at parties. Sabot.... looks like "Save your butt" to me.

 

[denfoote]

Sabot

It's a contraction of the phrase "Say what, robot"????

 

[WvaBill]

When you say pronounce "hors d'oeuvres".....

I thought they were horse divers.

 

[entropy]

I always thought they were horsey doovers! Another French word that in Southern sounds nothing like it does in French: The other name for the Osage Orange tree, which is 'bois d' arc' (so named for it's use in making bows [bois {tree or branch} d' {of} arc {bow}]) is pronounced 'bodark', at least in Texas.

 

[armoredman]

How do tanker pronounce sabot? APFSDS....aka dead enemy.
Saur is pronounce sour, last time I checked. The one every one has a problem with is Heckler and ....what is that word?
Can you pronounce Ceska Zbrojovka? How about Mosin Nagant? Hint, it ain't what you've always called it.....