When you call the test center, they pronounce it lop-wa.

I still call it La-poo-eh because it sounds better.

 

Gibbs calls it la-poo-ah

 

I would never thought that. Hopefully I can remember that.

 

According to Lapua...Lop-wa.
Lapua Rimfire Performance Center

 

Listened to the video and yea, la-poo-ah isn’t quite right. Bet I can’t change though.

This video is Jack Neary one of the shooters for Lapua. He should know, but Kevin Nevius who shoots for Lapua pronounces it a slightly different. Both pronounce it with just two syllables and both a’s are a short a. (i.e. Ah, I see now.) So, it’s either Lap-wa or La-pwa. Probably La-pwa...

 

According to an article I read in a gun mag some years ago, where they toured the factory or something, it's Lop-wa.

Case closed.

Now, anyone want to play "Garand" or "carbine"?

 

According to an article I read in a gun mag some years ago, where they toured the factory or something, it's Lop-wa.

Case closed.

Now, anyone want to play "Garand" or "carbine"?

Garands. A dozen ways to say it wrong.
Go to camp perry and listen to how they say it. They got it right from the guys family.

 

Well there's the Americanized way people say/mispronounce and then there's the way that the Europeans themselves say it.

 

Yea. But they also butcher aluminum.

 

If you say lop-wa to most people they just look at you like you are talking with a mouth full of crap, but everyone knows la-poo-ah.

 

Yes!

 

Kah- Ching😇

 

At last years SB Nationals ,Adam Braverman made an announcement the correct pronunciation of Lapua.
It’s Lap ua . Someone in the audience “ We ain’t saying that” It’s La pua.”

 

My Late Great Dad used to say, "If ten million people do a Stupid Thing, it is still a Stupid Thing."

 

It's pronounced the same way a Canadian would pronounce this guy:

Le Pew, Aye?

 

Leep-ooaah.

 

I wish I never read this post. I've been living a lie.

 

 

Just a smidgen of history, the name comes from the city of Lapua in Finland where the ammunition factory Nammo Lapua is located. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapua

I believe all the rimfire ammunition is manufactured in Schonebeck, Germany now.

 

I used to thing it was lah Pugh uh. Now I think it's lap uha. Not really sure. But we all call addidas, ah deed us, oversees it's Ahh deed us.

 

Close, but more correctly it is "AH dee das". I worked for a subsidiary of the company for ten years and it was still hard to say it correctly, and if I used it outside of work here in California nobody knew what I was talking about! The name comes from the company founder, Adolph (Adi) Dassler, so the correct pronunciation totally makes sense.

I remember the first time I heard someone talking about his M1 "Guh-rand", I thought he was saying "Grand" since I didn't know anything about the rifles at the time. The more correct pronunciation "Gair-und" would help avoid that confusion, but everyone I know in my local shooting world says "Guh-rand". Seems like I read once that John C. gave up trying to get people to pronounce it the "correct" way and just lived with it.

 

Lahp-'wah. NO POO!

 

How do you pronounce Lapua?

ac·cu·rate/ˈækjərət

Fritz

 

I remember cringing when someone would say Leopold instead of Leupold. It was so prevalent that sometime in the late 80s-early 90s I remember Leupold having an ad showing how to pronounce it! I tried looking for it, but could only find this:

 

It doesn’t matter, European dialects are so vast and different that each culture says it differently. Just like Porsche or race car driver Michael Schumacher. Even Michael says his own first name differently

Grammar Nazi have no clue how real world languages work

 

Then there's the "Aguila" ammo debate!

 

Don't start that one! Don't know if I even pronounce that one the same way twice. LOL

 

Who cares, we liberated all of Europe in 1945, I'll call it what I want to. Lap wa, Socko, Vita vooray, blah, blah, magazine-clip, again.

 

When I say it there’s a poo in it fwiw.

 

Any Finns here?

As I recall, many words in the Finnish language are heavy on the first syllable........so my guess would be:

LAH-poo-ah.

 

Second generation Finnish-American here. You nailed it, Rocinante.

Lapua pronunciation: How to pronounce Lapua in Finnish

Pronunciation guide: Learn how to pronounce Lapua in Finnish with native pronunciation. Lapua translation and audio pronunciation

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For those who care, that's the way it's pronounced in Finnish. For those who don't, say it any way you want.

 

Three syllables, emphasis on the first. Source: I'm always right.

 

Well, now I've read it on the Internets, so it MUST be true.

 

I pronounce it expensive, but worth every penny of it, hard to get(seems like most of the time anymore) and glad I have a bunch of it
Lah-poo-ah

 

So it isn't Labia ?

 

If you're not going to pronounce it correctly, why not? Might as well get a laugh with it.