please help settle a debate

[enaid8991]

Debating this at work...how do you pronounce Sig Sauer? Is it sour or sawyer? Or does it depend on what part of the country you are from?

 

[Snapdragon]

I think technically it's 'sour', but I always think 'sawyer' when I read it.

 

[mbills2223]

Sour

 

[Birds Away]

The correct pronunciation is sour no matter what part of the country you are from.

 

[Thegeek]

Call their customer service line and listen to the recording. Say it the way they do.

 

[Jeff]

Or just say SIG, most gun people know the term.

 

[Gluemanz28]

Just go with Sig. It will work anyplace except thug ville. Then all guns are either a Glock or a Gat.

 

[Mark 1911]

Sour

 

[phylodog]

Sour

 

[TaunTaun]

Grenade...


Oh wait, that's Glock...

 

[nakinate]

Sauer = sour. Think Sauer Kraut.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Sour.

 

[Rookie]

Sore

 

[hoosierdoc]

ZICK ZOUR! Ist Deutsch, bitte schoen

 

[HoughMade]

"That gun that people buy when they can't justify the price of an H&K, but they want to seem tacticool."

 

[chezuki]

While the correct answer is "sour", be aware that to date, no debate has ever been "settled" on INGO. Someone will be along shortly to adamantly swear it is correctly pronounced "cupcake" just to be the voice of opposition.

 

[hoosierdoc]

While the correct answer is "sour", be aware that to date, no debate has ever been "settled" on INGO. Someone will be along shortly to adamantly swear it is correctly pronounced "cupcake" just to be the voice of opposition.

Again, it's "Zour", or "zauer". It's German. Zig Zour (zauer)

sauer - Wiktionary


Apparently this is common gun forum questions

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sig+german+pronounciation&gws_rd=ssl

 

[HoughMade]

The real reason I prefer Smith and Wesson....looking like a newbie at the gun store due to mispronunciation.

 

[T.Lex]

Frankly, the mispronouncing of the "K" word in H&K bothers me more. But then, I've never heard Sauer pronounced "Sawyer." Always sour, or even more of a schwa for the vowel sound "sahr."

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Don't want to come of as pedantic, but the power of OCD commands me! The vowels don't all get stirred into a stew in there. The "au" digraph has a sound like ow. Not like "ow, I just hit my thumb with the hammer" but a little more restrained, with the w shortened. The "er" is almost like ours, but they're very subtle with the r. The er actually comes out more resembling what we would think of as "ah". Not like "ahh, this hot tub is glorious"; the h is also very subtle.

So the whole thing goes together as something like "Sowah", most closely approximated by, yes, sour.