The Only Question that Matters

[IcatchDinks]

How the heck do you pronounce Rapala!? ?

[Captain Phil]

 

[fin]

The same way I pronounce Daiwa - wrong ?

[FrnkNsteen]

1 hour ago, Captain Phil said:

 

Gurss that answers that!

[Tennessee Boy]

Rap-a-la is the correct way but as a southerner I'm not bound by any notions of proper pronunciation.   It's Ra-pala for me and I ain't changing.  

[heavyduty]

Rah-pal-uh

[Bird]

Reminds of Leupold hunting scopes.

Everyone around here always calls them le-a-pold when the proper pronunciation is Leu-pold. 

[MIbassyaker]

rapa-LAH  like' "Shangri-La"

 

No, seriously, it's RAP-uh-lah.  Finnish name, which, if you know any Finns, makes pronounciational* sense.

 

 

 

*not a word, but still comprehensible. Suck it, English.

[GRiver]

Never heard it said other way ……. 
thanks @Captain Phil

[ironbjorn]

Ruh-Paul-Uh. Never heard it said another way, and I'm originally from Illinois, now in Indiana.

[Darth-Baiter]

it's why i dont own any.  i have a difficult time enough with Keitech.