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For me it's " high caliber rifle" , what the h*%ll is that supposed to be? There's an old naval definition of caliber being barrel length divided by bore size that gave you a guns caliber. But when some idjit newcaster says " he was shot with a high calibre rifle" makes me want to strangle the fool.
 
Had a guy,at work, ask me what I thought about "Say-ko" rifles? His neighbor was selling a .30-06. He thought it looked pretty good and he had 2 "Say-ko" watches, that were really "accurate"


My brain hurt so bad, I just said, " buy it ".
 
dirt-poor said:
What if it's a You-birdie? Is that something you can shoot?

"Uberti," when said that way, is a pet peeve of mine. The real pronunciation is oo-BEHR-tee. So "a Uberti" is not correct either. That should be "an Uberti."

"Pietta," when pronounced pye-EH-ta, is another pronunciation error. Pee-EH-ta is correct.
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Then what do you call this? :

Pieta.jpg
Because in Italian, this statue is pronounced that way.
But the name of the gun company is pronounced; PEE-ay-Ta.
 
Considering the number of accents in the US alone I figure I'm ahead if I can figure out what they are talking about. They are rifles followed by the caliber. Anything else is just detail and details vary from person to person.

Much like the argument my Dad had with Father Bob at one point Dad asked the pastor if there was anything wrong with calling a spade a spade. The reply was soft and devastating... "no, but you insist it's a <redacted> shovel."
 
Officers'Wife said:
Considering the number of accents in the US alone I figure I'm ahead if I can figure out what they are talking about. They are rifles followed by the caliber. Anything else is just detail and details vary from person to person.
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I'm from a small southern town. I open my mouth and I sound like cornbread.:D My wife is from Indiana and she still doesn't understand me sometimes.
 
As said, even in the day, there were alternate spellings of "Hawken."
"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." A. Jackson.

My position on the subject was fixed long ago by H. Hornblower and the Royal Navy's Anglicisation of French costal features like Ducks Friars for Deux Freres island.
 
Jim Watson said:
As said, even in the day, there were alternate spellings of "Hawken."
"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." A. Jackson.
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I can go along with your statement, however many people make it obvious that "alternate spellings" is not what they have in mind...
 
Jim Watson said:
My position on the subject was fixed long ago by H. Hornblower and the Royal Navy's Anglicisation of French costal features like Ducks Friars for Deux Freres island.
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Or they could have just looked it up and translated it to "Two Brothers," preserving the meaning in English instead of corrupting the name to something nonsensical.
 
Jim Watson said:
Weren't many Googles to look stuff up on onboard a man o' war, nor Collins dictionaries, neither.
Nor literate crew, for that matter.
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Well yeah, you're right -- especially regarding the rate of literacy back then. Hadn't considered that a French-English dictionary would have been of limited use to guys who couldn't read.
 
Didn't we have an interminably long thread on this subject fairly recently? On this "sight". Talking about "Lee_a_polds" on guns shooting Sell-eye,-oat and Bell-ot" ammo using "nite sites".
I'm sorry. Rubbed a raw spot. Carry on.
 
PapaG said:
Didn't we have an interminably long thread on this subject fairly recently? On this "sight". Talking about "Lee_a_polds" on guns shooting Sell-eye,-oat and Bell-ot" ammo using "nite sites".
I'm sorry. Rubbed a raw spot. Carry on.
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Probably, however it appears I must have missed it.
 
Variations in American dialect is not the same thing as illiteracy.


Being told at the end of a post to "carry on".
 
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Captain*kirk said:
OK; you guys ever have a thing that rankles you so bad you wanna scream?
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Well, I have one, with regard to Black Powder.
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Yeah, hearing gunpowder referred to as Black Powder!
It's been in continual use for well over 1000 years by any account.
Smokeless powder has only been in use about 130 years or so.

Yet folks continue to label smokeless type powder as gunpowder instead.
Go figure.

JT
 
JT-AR-MG42 said:
Yeah, hearing gunpowder referred to as Black Powder!
It's been in continual use for well over 1000 years by any account.
Smokeless powder has only been in use about 130 years or so.

Yet folks continue to label smokeless type powder as gunpowder instead.
Go figure.

JT
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The masses are ignorant of the use and history and don't know the difference between gunpowder and smokeless other than the fact one leaves clouds and stinks, while the other doesn't.
 
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