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Phonics 101
« on: August 26, 2008, 10:07:03 AM »
OK don't know why this on is stuck in my craw, but here we go.
I always though Glock and HK POLYGONAL barrels were pronounced

Pall-E-gone-L

But recently in a gun shop and on TV I have heard them pronounced as

Poll-IG-On-Al (Poll-IGuana-On-ALbert)

So which do you think is correct?
I'm sticking wtih Pall-E-gone-L

My brain hurts sometimes and I'm the cause.

*sigh*

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Re: Phonics 101
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2008, 10:47:04 AM »
Well, a pol-y-gon isn't pronouced po-yl-gon or po-lyg-on so I don't know why they would pronounce polygonal any differently. But that's the way the online dictionary I checked said: po-lyg-o-nal and po-lyg-o-nal-ly. I'll just say polygon and avoid using polygonal and polygonally when possible. You can hear it here: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?polygo02.wav=polygonal
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Re: Phonics 101
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2008, 09:41:36 PM »
OK, all the bold type and hypens made my eyes hurt, and it is too late and I am too tired.

What the Merriam-Webster link said is how I have always said it. But then I really liked math in HS and went through geometry, trig, algebra and a little calculus - very little actually.

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Re: Phonics 101
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2008, 05:39:20 AM »
That sounds a lot like a guy with too many wives.
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""It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency." - George Washington. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, Friday, May 02, 1783

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