Spelling Matters

[aFarewellToKings]

I gotta memorize this one to steal from you.

'S ok. I stolen from somewhere. I keep a file of all the interesting quotes I find.
Like:
"[To believe that,] you'd have to be too stupid to be a spell checker at an M & M factory"
-- Jonah Goldberg, FoxNews 07 Aug 2015

 

[47thGARBB]

Mannlicher - pronounce this!

You lick what now?

 

[Please Delete]

You lick what now?

 

[basstracker89]

Way back when I first joined there was some debate on if it's pronounced SI- GA with the long I or SAY GA like the old game system from the early 90s. Given the SAIGA spelling I assumed it was pronounced SI- GA.
Oh and it's always been odd to me that it's pronounced Sig- Sower but the watch company from I believe the same country is pronounced
Tag HOY- ER.

I translate SI-GA as Yes- Georgia.........

 

[Stampede]

Noriko SKS or Norico SKS

Chi-car-go, Illinois

Mozzin Naghant

Cummins vs.....Cummings.

 

[basstracker89]

Heuer vs. Sauer, two different vowels at play here. You wouldn't say "Pass me that bowl of soyer kraut" would you?

Well, I mite........

 

[basstracker89]

Oh yeah I was just about to mention Edelbrock. I have never seen a product name get SO mangled in the pronunciation or spelling.
" It's got that dang old EED-el- Brook Performer intake..."

Offenhauser........

 

[basstracker89]

Similar sentiment:
Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French, and it is all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, and it is all organized by the Italians.

 

[basstracker89]

My youngest grand daughter is spending her senior year of high school in Germany as an exchange student.
Living just south of Berlin.
Last August she was immersed in a German language school for 4 weeks before the school year started.

I can't imagine 4 weeks being enough

 

[basstracker89]

As bad as Warshington.

But, that's how you find the 'representatives' (in either house) who've been there too long.

I had a professor that said warsh instead of wash.....