How is SAKO pronounced?

SAKO is an acronym for a name...
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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...
 
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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.
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if we are nitpicking (which can be fun:p)

I think it has kinda moved into a brandname, they write it Sako on their own website, therefor it is a anacronym

pronounce it like this, like the last za in pizza + the co in coroner

zaco;)

but if you don't then it is no big deal, this is how a finn pronounces some american brand names
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNlPfQi9sXI
:D
 
Husqvarna said:
... like the last za in pizza...
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Carefully there! Rather too many Americans will pronounce the a in pizza as the schwa, ə, the universal unpronounced vowel.

SUCK-O just will not do!;)
 
Besides Sako = Socko...the correct Finnish pronunciation for the 300 Lapua is "Lap-wa", not La-pua.
 
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For what it's worth, even text-to-speech programs recognize the sako is pronounced "sock-o".

I'm in the United States, and I speak American. As such, it is Say-ko.
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I'm proud to be an American but even I recognize our unfortunate tendency to bastardize words from other languages. Just because it's common doesn't mean we should.;)

Classic example being bombardier. We say "Bomb-ber-deer" while it should be bomb-bar-dee-A.

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.:D
 
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.
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They do the same for us, in their own countries.


Classic example being bombardier. We say "Bomb-ber-deer" while it should be bomb-bar-dee-A.
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I don't.
Even so... In American English, it would be pronounced "bom-bar-deer". I don't see a problem. I'd much rather see someone pronounce something in their own way, than try to force something unnatural on them. (Like Ws for Germans, Ls for Japanese, etc. - It's unnatural, when forced into their native tongue.)


Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to help my neighbor find some spark plug wires for his Tschebby truck. ;)
 
I'm proud to be an American but even I recognize our unfortunate tendency to bastardize words from other languages.
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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. :p
 
I don't mind if someone wants to pronounce the M-1 Garand as in Ga-rand.... but the correct pronunciation is: Gar-and.
 
Well, by definition our language(American English) is a "bastardized" language. I would say that Southern is a further bastardization of American English. I can Say Remington, Winchester, Savage, and Ruger just fine.
 
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