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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 #dumptrump 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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