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But just exactly how is "Chaupis" pronounced??????? ______________________ RMEF Life Member SCI DRSS Chapuis 9,3/9,3 + 20/20 Simson 12/12/9,3 Zoli 7x57R/12 Kreighoff .470/.470 We band of 9,3ers! The Few. The Pissed. The Taxpayers. | ||
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OK, let me try. . . Sha-pwee Short a, long e Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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I am now embarrassed as to how terrible my previous pronounciation of this word was. Now if I can just learn to say "blah sure"..... Best of all he loved the Fall.... E. Hemingway | |||
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......And SOCK-O instead of SAY-co!   ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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Mac, That is another one I had wrong for years. Along this line though I have given up trying to get my brother to pronounce it "say bow" versus "sabb but" Best of all he loved the Fall.... E. Hemingway | |||
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And say Loo-pold, not lEE-oh-pold .395 Family Member DRSS, po' boy member Political correctness is nothing but liberal enforced censorship | |||
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and "Kimber" instead of Model 70!  Good hunting, Andy ----------------------------- Thomas Jefferson: “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” | |||
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En Francais would that be KIM-Bare? | |||
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.............And VAL-MAY double, instead of VAL-MET double! ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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Must resist temptation to post an off-color remark.  ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Cheese eating surrender monkey I believe is correct  Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial. | |||
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I just realized that I speak as badly as I type..... Best of all he loved the Fall.... E. Hemingway | |||
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Americanized version is "Cheapass". Long e short a. DRSS NRA Life Member VDD-GNA | |||
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I was at a gunshow yesterday and asked about a Chapius (per the pronounciation above) and the dealer looked at me like I was from Mars..... Best of all he loved the Fall.... E. Hemingway | |||
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Don, I would never ask you to divulge your planet of origin!  Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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SHAMM-PUYs' like say-bo (not sah butt) lee-may -- not leMATT min-neE' not miny and loads of other words that you can only say with your blood full of whine ... opps, wine jeffe opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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How about lup-wha and not laa-poo-aahh? 99% of the democrats give the rest a bad name. "O" = zero NRA life member | |||
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Rusty is right Chapwee. Note there is no long or short syllable in French. Each syllabe is pronounced. Chapuis meaNs CARPENTER J B de Runz Be careful when blindly following the masses ... generally the "m" is silent | |||
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