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ra2bach
12-05-08, 11:58
How do you pronounce Lapua? I've heard too many people pronounce this differently, sometimes in ways that make me tilt my head like a dog hearing a high-pitched noise.

what's the correct pronunciation, is it lah-POO-ah? lah-PAW? LOP-wah? lah-WTF?...

Jay Cunningham
12-05-08, 12:20
I have heard others pronounce it: la POO ah

I don't know if that's right or not.

JBnTX
12-05-08, 13:05
My money's on "La-pu-ah".

Tom_Jones
12-05-08, 13:46
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DM-SC
12-05-08, 14:23
Sounds like he is saying la POO ah to me.

JBnTX
12-05-08, 17:06
It does sound like La-POO-ah.

It almost sounds like La-Poo, with the ah trailing off.

Maybe La-Poo? with the ah coming just under the breath?

andre3k
12-05-08, 17:44
lah-PAW? LOP-wah? ...[/I]

these two are pretty funny.

try to pronounce vihtavuori.....

Robb Jensen
12-05-08, 19:17
these two are pretty funny.

try to pronounce vihtavuori.....

Vee-tah-vorie......

DM-SC
12-05-08, 20:59
Vee-tah-vorie......

That's the way I've always heard it pronounced.

Saginaw79
12-05-08, 21:43
La Poo Uhh

andre3k
12-05-08, 22:48
Vee-tah-vorie......

i've heard it as veeta-vee-oree

BWYoda
12-08-08, 04:28
I pronounce it "ouch"!

markm
12-08-08, 09:57
The pronounced it "La Pooh Ah" on CSI miami the other night! :D

Damn that show is retarded. But I still watched some of it!

Ned Christiansen
12-08-08, 10:04
If you are English, I bet it's lap as in lap dance, LAP-you-uh. This is based on them pronouncing Jaguar as JAG-you-are and aluminum as al-you-MINium :D

Hey I love all things English- cars, bikes, muffins, accents.....

But as one of Finnish descent I'm gonna say LAHpooah where the "pooah" is almost like "pwah". Just my semi-educated guess.

lowprone
12-08-08, 18:26
Pronounced Lap wha, Ned gets the shiney ring