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To: JoeProBono
What's the Freeper consensus on pronunciation? This FAQ claims it's "mo-SEEN na-GOHN".
3 posted on 03/08/2014 4:19:59 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

According to the ex commie who lives in the neighborhood behind me, and grew up in Russia, it’s pronounced Moe-seen Nahgahn
The T is silent in Nagant.


4 posted on 03/08/2014 4:23:52 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Yardstick

MO-seen Nah-GON. Russia uses the Cyrillic alphabet, while we use the Latin alphabet.
To get from one to the other, you have to transliterate, which is always open to interpretation.


5 posted on 03/08/2014 4:24:38 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Yardstick

I pronounce it Mosin Nagant, ‘cause I’m an American and no commie tells me how to talk.


6 posted on 03/08/2014 4:24:45 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Yardstick

Sounds like ....”Mose’in naw gaunt”.... Was how I was taught in the service.


8 posted on 03/08/2014 4:26:50 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Yardstick

Mosin was Russian. (MO-seen)

Nagant was Belgian. (Na-gau)

The Russians never called the rifle the Mosin-Nagant.

Although Nagant sued, and was paid hush money, the fact remained that no appreciable part of his design was incorporated in the final rifle, and that Mosin’s design won the competition. As that wasn’t well known at the time, the Western media just called it the Mosin-Nagant.


16 posted on 03/08/2014 5:16:08 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Yardstick; JoeProBono; mylife
What's the Freeper consensus on pronunciation? This FAQ claims it's "mo-SEEN na-GOHN".

Personally, I just call her Tatiyana.

20 posted on 03/08/2014 5:36:30 PM PST by Professional Engineer (I am not cynical. /s)
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To: Yardstick

I say “Long Mosey.”


40 posted on 03/08/2014 10:14:02 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Yardstick

Mousey-Nugent


55 posted on 03/09/2014 8:37:00 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Yardstick

It’s pronounced “moist nugget”.


59 posted on 03/09/2014 8:55:13 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Yardstick

No, Say it this way: “Commie rifle”.


64 posted on 03/09/2014 10:36:54 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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