people who cant pronouce "Spyderco"

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ericvar101

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I was playing cards a few weeks ago and started talking knives with this guy who says to me that he's got one of those "Spa-dare-y-co" knives. Then on Sunday I went to a flea market and there was a guy selling some buck 112s, as we talked he told me he as a fully serrated "Spa-derk-o".

What is wrong with people, do you guys here this sort of thing too, or do I just live among a bunch of illerterate rednecks?
 
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I think its the second one. I've never heard anyone mispronounce Spyderco.
 
ericvar101 said:
I was playing cards a few weeks ago and started talking knives with this guy who says to me that he's got one of those "Spa-dare-y-co" knives. Then on Sunday I went to a flea market and there was a guy selling some buck 112s, as we talked he told me he as a fully serrated "Spa-derk-o".

What is wrong with poeple, do you guys here this sort of thing too, or do I just live among a bunch of illerterate rednecks?
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I'm with ya'...almost as annoying as people who can't spell pronouNce and pEOple ;) .
 
the one guy even argued with me when I tried to correct him (they guy I was playing cards with). I told him to just go home and watch a few knive reviews on you tube and see how they pronounce it.

....didn't bother to try to correct the guy at the flea market.
 
Oh, and illITERate and who don't apostrophize "can't"! Only kidding...kinda' ;) . Everyone knows it's "spuh-deery-cow".
 
Ok, this is fun, so I'll play.

"He told me he as a fully serrated"....ok, I assume you meant has, but then we have to deal with you changing from past to present tense mid sentence! hehehe ;-).

Spi-dur-koo
 
Oh, and just curious...was the flea market in Canada?? No offense to Canadians, but I can totally hear that with a Canadian accent! "WOAH, that's a wicked sharp edge on that spa-derk-o EH?!
 
It's probably just a local accent type of thing. I've heard many people pronounce spy as "spa" and lie as "la" etc.

You can tra to correct 'em but it probably won't do any good. ;)
 
Surfingringo said:
Oh, and just curious...was the flea market in Canada?? No offense to Canadians, but I can totally hear that with a Canadian accent! "WOAH, that's a wicked sharp edge on that spa-derk-o EH?!
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that cuts me deep dude, I don't think my feelings could ever recover. Im just going to pretend I don't know what you're talking ABOOT. :D
 
"Spa-derk-o" seems right to me, but I'm probably a redneck. :confused:

I don't know many knife-nuts in the real world but it does seem pretty hard to mispronounce Spyderco.
 
So what's wrong with"Spa-derk-o"...eh? I am just going to sit a spell on my Chesterfield and think aboot this. ;)
 
Lol, rednecks indeed. "Spa-derk-o" isn't necessarily all wrong I guess, but sounds like an incredibly strong southern drawl to me. But then again, I'm from Minnesota, so I don't really have any grounds to be judging people's accents or calling people rednecks, we've got plenty of both around here...
 
Calling people illiterate and misspell it. lmao

I live in hillbilly central and I've never heard it mispronounced.
 
I guess it depends how you are reading it...I grew up in Louisiana and yeah, we might say SPAH-der-co, but what I heard when I read the op was more of a mispronunciation (which as I said, I can DEFINITELY hear in a Canadian, or better yet a MINNESOTA accent) ;-). Spu-DERK-o. Lol, nobody really cares, it's just fun laughing at someone who might actually have a worse accent than mine!! Heh
 
Surfingringo said:
I guess it depends how you are reading it...I grew up in Louisiana and yeah, we might say SPAH-der-co, but what I heard when I read the op was more of a mispronunciation (which as I said, I can DEFINITELY hear in a Canadian, or better yet a MINNESOTA accent) ;-). Spu-DERK-o. Lol, nobody really cares, it's just fun laughing at someone who might actually have a worse accent than mine!! Heh
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Haha, yeah...us Minnesotans are a goofy bunch...I will say though, the stereotypical "Fargo" (the movie not the town, because the town isn't in MN...) accent doesn't really exist in most of the state. You have to go way up north to run into that. Those of us in the Twin Cities area are usually toned down quite a bit, but still cut off our "t"'s, for example" oh ya, we minnesodans really like to get the boad oud on the lake"
 
My mate always calls it a "spee-derko", but mainly because he knows how much it winds me up.
 
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