Any Guy Loverin fans out there ?

[Rockydoc]

I've been a fan ever since I was a kid and I saw the black and white photo of H. Guy, (pronounce Gee, hard g long ee),

Was he French?
If so his last name , Loverin, would be pronounced “Luv-RAN”. Like the music composer Chopin, pronounced Sho-PAN.

Other gun related pronunciations in the language of where they were made vs. American english pronunciations:

Sako: SOCK-oh instead of Say-ko.

Franchi: Fronk-ee instead of Fran-chee

CZ: Chay-Zed instead of See-zee.

Hey Spindrift, I am sure you are fluent in several languages, so did I get most of that right?
By the way, your own Norwegian Kraft-Joø

 

[Rockydoc]

This is hard for me to do on a phone. It posted before I was through.
Krag- Jørgensen : Krog-Yurgenson. Is that even close?

 

[Spindrift]

The «ø» sound is like the «ea» in «earth». The «a» in «krag» is like the «a» in «after», with British pronounciation.

Krag was a colonel in the Norwegian armed forces, while Jørgensen was a gunsmith at the Kongsberg weapons factory. This factory stopped making small arms some years ago. Nowadays they make missiles and other hi-tech weapon systems.

 

[462]

The «a» in «krag» is like the «a» in «after», with British pronounciation.

Not only do Americans not pronounce Krag correctly, we can't even pronounce it the way the English do.

 

[Rockydoc]

Not only is English pronunciation different than American, usage is different so much that it is almost a different language. In England and many of her former colonies the bonnet of a car is where you keep your engine and the boot is where you put your luggage. A car crash is a stent and a body shop is a “panel bender”.
When I watch British TV I use closed captions so I can tell what they are talking about. Especially people from East end London and Manchester.

 

[Rick H]

Cockney's speak an undecipherable version that the Queen herself wouldn't be able to understand.

 

[RBHarter]

Movie trivia .
Mel Gibson's "bush drawl" was so bad that the 1st Mad Max movie had his lines dubbed because the Aussies , his native tongue , couldn't understand him .

The only thing wrong with American is all of the French , German , Spanish , Dutch , Portuguese , Italian , Latin , Greek , Hebrew and several Slovic and SW Aisian influences and slang .
Colour ,color and coloure .
Reed , read , read , red .
Shop , shoppe .
Catalog catalogue .
Rays , raise ,raze .
Rendezvous .
Nite , night , knight
Lite , light .
Mould , mold .
Wait , weight .
Height is not Hate , but eight is ate , great isn't like eat because we use greet .
Grey and gray are the same thing but a gray hound and a greyhound are 3 completely different things .
Track is a road , mark or an action but not a path .
Upper may refer to a higher point or amphetamine .
Road , rowed
Boar , bore , bored , board , boarded have like 3 related definitions and at least 7 that aren't even close and depend heavily on context .
Port .
Tough and dough don't sound the same .
Threw and through .
Z , x , c , or a pick some words .
Option , precision , and Ocean share the same last syllable
Lead , lead , leade , led and LED .
I could probably sit here in the waiting room and come up with 2-300 more .

 

[Spindrift]

There are quite a few words in the English/American language of norse origin as well, a heritage from the years of the Viking kings in Britain.
Lamb is originally a norse word. Then Vilhelm the conqueror came over, and made mutton.

 

[462]

My 7th grade teacher, Mrs. Olson, told us the correct pronunciation of "W" and "V" -- Villiam and Wictor. I'm quite sure she didn't know who Ludvig Loeve was, though.

Is that revolver really a Vindicator?