how do you pronounce some of these knife names?

allyourblood

allyourblood

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i hate that i always see knives and knife companies online but don't know how to properly pronounce them out loud. to help me avoid looking/sounding foolish, please provide some corrections if you can:


Delica (del-licka?)

Camillus (kuh-mill-us?)

Ka Bar (kay barr?)

Sere 2000 (seer? seeree?)

and last, do most of you folks say "sog" or "ess oh gee" when referring to SOG?

added: oh yeah, and Opinel (oh-pinell? opp-inell?)

i realise all of this sounds silly, but i just have to know. please forgive my ignorance.

abe m.
 
Ya did pretty good!

Sere is [seer] as in serious, SOG is [sog] as in soggy. Whenever I get an acronym I can pronounce as a word, I do it. Many do not. For example, is a Law Enforcement Officer "a" LEO [lee-oh] or "an" LEO [el-ee-oh]? I think [sog] and [lee-oh] are easier, especially when many acronyms are jiggered around to make a word, like Leo the Lion.

Opinel is French [oh-pee-NEL]

Now for the good ones:

Sebenza [seh-ben-zah]
Umfaan [oom-fahn]
Mnandi [muh-nun-dee]

Close enough for government work ... :p
 
thanks very much for those, Esav! i'm pleased to see most of my pronunciations were more or less on the mark.

anyone else? please feel free to add some pronunciations that you think might be stumpers, or ask any additional ones in this thread, so we can get it all out of the way at once. :D

abe m.
 
If you want one that gets butchered the most... :)

No doubt it's Laguiole.., I've heard it said so many ways my ears bleed when I hear it.

I've been told by a distributor that is French.., that's it's:

Lagwuah (insert nasal tone) <~~ roughly phonetisized (La - as in ladder.., and gwuah - as in Guaifenesin).

Anyone fluent in French want to enlighten??? :)
 
Don't worry about asking, I wonder about things myself sometimes. I'm not around a lot of knife freaks, so there is a lot of knife lingo that I read and don't get to "hear" so I make up my own pronuciations. :D

For instance, since I first read about Busse, I pronounced it "Bu-see" as in Gary Busey (I don't know why.) I still call it that, and probably will from now on out. :D
 
man, have I been pronouncing "busse" wrong. So, its "bus" like in school bus? Thanks for starting this thread before I further spread knowledge of my ignorance, lol.
 
Laguiole. that's another one i was wondering about. thanks! i'm gettin' a kick outta all of these.

abe m.
 
This is something I ran into at Blade back in April.I didn't think about it until I got there and started talking to people and all of a sudden it hit me that I wasn't sure how to pronounce half the things I have seen on the forums.
 
As a fluent French speaker (1 of the 3 official languages in Belgium, others are Dutch and German) I'm afraid you guys are all slightly off the mark on Laguiole. It's Lah-Gwee-Ol the o in Ol being pronounced as the O in forrest.
 
Whoa, thanks Willy...I was reading this thread and wondered why my pronunciation of the word "Laguiole" was supposed to be wrong (truth be told, French is not my favorite language, but I'm still reasonably good at it)...I'm glad that you confirmed that I was right.
 
No prob Quiet storm. I'm pretty sure of this as half my family are native french speakers, I myself speak dutch but I learned french since I'm 11 or something...
 
Left out some important ones

BENCHMADE bench-made rhymes with wrench paid
COLD STEEL kold steel rhymes with mold wheel
UNITED crap rhymes with junk
CASE kas long a, rhymes with face
MARBLES mar -bulls, rhymes with marbles
BUCK buck rhymes with (never mind)
 
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