how do you pronounce some of these knife names?

Now try to pronounce these correctly:

Böker

Heckler & Koch

Porsche

Güde

Herder Windmühlenmesser (Kitchenknives !)

Puma

:D ;)
 
Boker = bow-ker (rhymes with "show her")

Heckler and Koch = Heck-ler and cock (I think)

Porsche = poor-sha or poor-sh, it varies

Puma = poo-ma

What about Lochsa?

Is it Loe-shuh?
 
The "ö" in Böker is actually pronounced very similiarly to the (prolonged and exaggerated) sound of the "u" in the word "turn".
Porsche: with the o like in "box", a rolled r and ending in - sha, that was right.
And now for the rest !

But what is a "Lochsa" ? Never heard the word ! Are you sure it is German ? Sounds more like Swedish to me.
 
Originally posted by BlackTalon
The "ö" in Böker is actually pronounced very similiarly to the (prolonged and exaggerated) sound of the "u" in the word "turn".
Porsche: with the o like in "box", a rolled r and ending in - sha, that was right.
And now for the rest !

But what is a "Lochsa" ? Never heard the word ! Are you sure it is German ? Sounds more like Swedish to me.
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Pronounce like the "u" in turn? You don't pronounce the u, the u and r make a combine to make a different sound. And the "o" in box is pronounced kind of like "ahh", Bahhx.

I always thought it was poor (as in poor house) -sha. But then again, I'm not German :D

Here's what a Lochsa is: http://www.scottcookknives.com/lochsa.htm

I'm on the list for one :D
 
Maybe Lochsa is Scots?

It's very difficult to represent sounds with a traditional keyboard. Professional linguists use phonetic alphabets with hundreds of letters.

German is very similar to English, but phonetically there are problems between them. Vowels like ö and ü don't sound much like anything in English, and the other vowels tend to be Continental or slurred, not diphthongs like Americans tend to make them.

That said, there is good reason to develop and use a clear American or British version of foreign words, or be condemned to learn the phonetics of languages you could choke on :)
 
Originally posted by WillyD
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.
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I have heard this pronounced by a French person and in the way he said it there was no G sound.
 
@dylan:

Sorry, I speak British English, I forgot that it doesn´t work so well with the American pronounciation...

BTW: thats a nice folder, I have got a Puma folder the locking mechanism of which works exactly the same way. Robust and reliable.
 
Well at least I don´t have any problemas with ANDUJAR, MUELA, AITOR or NAVAJA.

Not about knives but I have always wonder about the G in RUGER and LUGER, is it like in ROGER ?, In Mexico, LUGER is commonly pronounced with a hard G as in BIGGER.
 
I've heard them pronounced like this:

Luger = loo ger (hard g)

Ruger = roo ger (hard g again)
 
Originally posted by Don Luis
Well at least I don´t have any problemas with ANDUJAR, MUELA, AITOR or NAVAJA.
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I'm gonna try these :D

Andujar = and-duh-har?

Muela = muh-way-la?

Aitor = eight-tore?

Navaja = na-va-ha?
 
Yes, Don Luis, you pronounce it the correct way in mexico. ( Mind the "u", however - it is pronounced with a long sound like "looger" )
 
Lochsa --- (Lock-saw)

American Indian:
Nez Perce -- Raging River, white water river.

A Northern Idaho river with Lewis and Clark expedition ties. Currently sports excellent trophy rainbow and cutthroat trout fishing and is a great scenic drive over Lolo pass into Montana.
 
Opinel breaks up to (O pi nel) not a big OH just O soft O

Porche (Por sha)

Böker (boo ker) oo the u sound

Heckler & Koch (Ko tch)


oh is Busse (Boo Sea) or (Buce)
 
Sorry, Nim -- it's Heckler & "Coke," as in, "I'd like a Diet Koch with my burger, please." :)
 
Originally posted by dylan_d
I'm gonna try these :D

Andujar = and-duh-har?

Muela = muh-way-la?

Aitor = eight-tore?

Navaja = na-va-ha?
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I´m not good at writing phonetic equivalents, I would say you are more or less right, but the Spanish "U" sounds more like "OO" in English, The "A" sounds like the "A" in BACK, the "V" sounds the same as "B", of course mine would be Mexican Spanish.

Thanks for explaining RUGER/LUGER.
 
hehe. this turned out to be a great thread. i've learned alot of pronunciations. not that there are ever any knife shows around here, but if there were, i'd be able to pronounce these blades properly now!

abe m.
 
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