SAKO is an acronym for a name...
And so are BREN, Brno, SKS, AK, AR, and a lot of other terms we use as common names. There's still a right way to pronounce it.
Thanks for the heads up on what Sako means...
SAKO is an acronym for a name...
Chuck Dye
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Originally Posted by 44AMP
Sako is a name...
Not quite.
SAKO is an acronym for a name: Suojeluskuntain Ase- ja Konepaja Oy, Finnish for Civil Guard Gun and Machiningworks Ltd.
Which leads to the obvious question, how do you pronounce that?Chuck Dye said:Not quite.
SAKO is an acronym for a name: Suojeluskuntain Ase- ja Konepaja Oy, Finnish for Civil Guard Gun and Machiningworks Ltd.
Husqvarna said:... like the last za in pizza...
I'm in the United States, and I speak American. As such, it is Say-ko.
this is how a finn pronounces some american brand names
They do the same for us, in their own countries.It's always been funny to me how we'll argue over clip versus magazine or whether a revolver is a pistol but we think nothing of saying foreign words any way we please.
I don't.Classic example being bombardier. We say "Bomb-ber-deer" while it should be bomb-bar-dee-A.
My last name is extremely rare, in fact the only other person with my last name in Chicago is my sister and a good chunk of the rest in the whole country are related. I've come to find that it's actually a bastardization/Americanization of a fairly common German name, presumably my ancestors who came over from Germany (or whatever city-state they came from since Germany wasn't even a country then) were illiterate and couldn't even write their own name so some immigration official just created a spelling for them.I'm proud to be an American but even I recognize our unfortunate tendency to bastardize words from other languages.
Which leads to the obvious question, how do you pronounce that?Originally Posted by Chuck Dye
Not quite.
SAKO is an acronym for a name: Suojeluskuntain Ase- ja Konepaja Oy