So, the wife and I were having dinner with another couple tonight, and our pleasant young\u00a0waitress told us that something called \u201csal-mon\u201d was good. I took her at her word,\u00a0and feasted\u00a0on my first salmon BLT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But…\u201dSal-mon?\u201d With a distinct \u201cL\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ain\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve heard that. Where I grew up, it was always pronounced \u201csammon,\u201d with\u00a0the \u201cL\u201d silent, and I still say it that way. At the restaurant or market, they always\u00a0know what I\u2019m\u00a0talking about and so far, I haven\u2019t been given the wrong fish yet after asking for \u201csammon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We see mispronunciations in the gun world all the time. The M-1 Garand rifle was always\u00a0pronounced \u201cGuh-RAND\u201d when I was growing up,\u00a0but those who knew the M-1\u2019s inventor say\u00a0he pronounced his own name \u201cGA-rand.\u201d It\u2019s generally accepted, on the other hand, that the\u00a0popular German brand Heckler & Koch is properly said \u201cCoke\u201d for the latter name, not \u201cKotch.\u201dThe Italian Carcano military rifle is usually pronounce \u201cCar-CAN-oh\u201d in this country, but some\u00a0experts insist that it should be \u201cCAR-can-oh.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of us own lever action carbines. Is it “LEE-ver” or “LEH-ver?” “Car-BEEN” or “car-BYNE?” Or maybe “CAR-been” or “CAR-byne?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I won\u2019t even get into the various pronunciations of Latin\u00a0words and\u00a0phrases in various\u00a0American environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m curious: tell me how\u00a0you\u00a0pronounce the words mentioned above, and feel free to share\u00a0other conflicting pronunciations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In my house, the word the Evil Princess of Podcasts, Pixels, and Polymer Pistols argues with me\u00a0about the most is \u201cniche.\u201d Perhaps it\u2019s because I grew up in New Hampshire which\u00a0has a large Franco-American population, but I have always pronounced it \u201cneesh.\u201d However,\u00a0my lovely bride, who was born in Chicago until I\u00a0kidnapped<\/s> rescued her, insist that it is properly\u00a0spoken as \u201cnitch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With us, it sounds like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: \u201cNeesh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her: \u201cNitch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: \u201cNeesh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her:\u00a0\u201cNitch!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me:\u00a0Beesh…(Uttered softly, so she won\u2019t hear me, and hurt me…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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So, the wife and I were having dinner with another couple tonight, and our pleasant young\u00a0waitress told us that something called \u201csal-mon\u201d was good. I took her at her word,\u00a0and feasted\u00a0on my first salmon BLT. But…\u201dSal-mon?\u201d With a distinct \u201cL\u201d? Ain\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve heard that. Where I grew up, it was always pronounced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}