Growing up in the early 80s in Ohio it was "ruh-pal-ah". When I first heard an ad on InFisherman by the company itself,  I switched over to RAP-ala. 

1 hour ago, PourMyOwn said:

Growing up in the early 80s in Ohio it was "ruh-pal-ah". When I first heard an ad on InFisherman by the company itself,  I switched over to RAP-ala. 

I grew up in Ohio too and it was always ruh-pal-ah.  I learned about 10 years ago that I've mispronouncing it for 30 years.  I've tried and tried and can't seem to break the habbit.

22 hours ago, drew4779 said:

I grew up in Ohio too and it was always ruh-pal-ah.  I learned about 10 years ago that I've mispronouncing it for 30 years.  I've tried and tried and can't seem to break the habbit.

 

People around here know and just don't care. They still say ruh-pal-ah. haha

9 hours ago, J Francho said:

Rapala.

This is the first one that came to my mind, I would guess more people say it wrong than say it right.

 

It's like the scope/optics company, Leupold. More people say "lee-uh-pold" than the correct way, "loo-pold". Not fishing related but those two always remind me of each other.

Some fish with lers. 

Wierdos call them crappy 

4 hours ago, jimmyjoe said:

    https://crappiefisher.com/crappie-pronunciation/

    jj

   

I’m totally saying “crah-PAY” from now on. Sounds very dignified. 

Daiwa Fuego = day-wuh fooh-go

12 hours ago, J Francho said:

Rapala.

Depends on where you are for this one. I've been pronouncing it correctly for decades until I went to S.C. and to a man, they pronounced it rap-a-la.

Crappie: I call them Crap-ee

Rapala: I say ruh-paul-la

Daiwa Fuego: I say die-wah foo-way-go

13 hours ago, jbsoonerfan said:

HUK - Huck instead of Hook

Its hook?  I also say Huk and I have 5 or 6 shirts...

13 hours ago, scaleface said:

...or a plastic worm a rubber worm .

I have a tendency to call them rubber worms.  My whole family did growing up and it stuck.

Not really a mispronunciation, but tons of people here call every kind of bluegill or sunfish a "perch" ? I hate it with all my being, but it does no good to correct them. Meanwhile, if they caught an actual perch (which there are very few of here), they'd probably have no idea what they were looking at.

I live in Ohio and always called Rapala, "rap-uh-luh", and then I was corrected by someone once while fishing and have tried to pronounce it "ruh-pal-ah", but I end up calling it by both names now, so confusing to a new fisherman.

 

But, I understand that "rap-uh-luh" is the official correct pronunciation of it?

 

I used to be guilty of saying pole instead of rod, but I learned the difference not too long ago.

 

Some of the Japanese stuff is hard for me to say because I haven't heard it said enough yet, I still have trouble with Gamakatsu.

 

Daiwa Fuego is a tough one for me to say sometimes and I'm sure there's a lot more that I butcher.

Here in Maine, even if we have the pronunciation correct we often leave out the 'r' in the middle or ends of words. There (theyah) is an unwritten and learned pattern (patt'n) but some words (woauds) that have the same r in the same places might be pronounce correctly (like correctly).

 

We use a Leada instead of a leader

Battry instead of battery

Mota instead of motor

We put our lures (loas) in a draw instead of a drawer (actually saying drawer feels like a mouth exercise to us. If we try it ends up coming out drawa-er.)

Watah instead of water

spinnah instead of spinner

And of course everyone know that around here we eat Lobstah.

Etcetra, etcetra  (etcetera)

 

Around heah it just sounds nommal to us.

 

 

14 minutes ago, DanielG said:

Here in Maine, even if we have the pronunciation correct we often leave out the 'r' in the middle or ends of words.

I think it's a New England thing...can't tell you how long after moving from RI to MN (1974) it took me to lose that - and even almost 50 years later, some words still 'lose the R'.

5 hours ago, DanielG said:

Here in Maine, even if we have the pronunciation correct we often leave out the 'r' in the middle or ends of words. There (theyah) is an unwritten and learned pattern (patt'n) but some words (woauds) that have the same r in the same places might be pronounce correctly (like correctly).

 

We use a Leada instead of a leader

Battry instead of battery

Mota instead of motor

We put our lures (loas) in a draw instead of a drawer (actually saying drawer feels like a mouth exercise to us. If we try it ends up coming out drawa-er.)

Watah instead of water

spinnah instead of spinner

And of course everyone know that around here we eat Lobstah.

Etcetra, etcetra  (etcetera)

 

Around heah it just sounds nommal to us.

 

 

Yes, one of my wife’s best friends from your area loves to have “Chewocolate” with her “Koowoffee” in the morning...?

33 minutes ago, DanielG said:

Here in Maine, even if we have the pronunciation correct we often leave out the 'r' in the middle or ends of words. There (theyah) is an unwritten and learned pattern (patt'n) but some words (woauds) that have the same r in the same places might be pronounce correctly (like correctly).

 

We use a Leada instead of a leader

Battry instead of battery

Mota instead of motor

We put our lures (loas) in a draw instead of a drawer (actually saying drawer feels like a mouth exercise to us. If we try it ends up coming out drawa-er.)

Watah instead of water

spinnah instead of spinner

And of course everyone know that around here we eat Lobstah.

Etcetra, etcetra  (etcetera)

 

Around heah it just sounds nommal to us.

 

 

 Growing up just outside of Boston, Ma , I am somewhat familiar with this myself ~

A-Jay

I have a novice fisherman friend who calls soft plastics "jellies".

"and then he'll mention "polaroid" sunglasses."

 

There's nothing wrong with wearing Polaroid glasses.

 

www.polaroideyewear.com/en-ww/home.html

 

edited to add: 

 

"Edwin Land, born in 1909 in Connecticut, invented Polaroid, the world's first polarizing material for commercial use, in 1929. He founded the Polaroid Corporation in 1937 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company initially produced Polaroid Day Glasses, the first sunglasses with a polarizing filter."

11 hours ago, JediAmoeba said:

Its hook?  I also say Huk and I have 5 or 6 shirts...

https://intercom.help/huk-gear/en/articles/2607288-how-do-you-pronounce-huk

Hook also means to steal or pilfer, lol.

23 hours ago, J Francho said:

 

Using in' instead of ing at the end, like: fishin', flippin', pitchin', jiggin', etc

I guess we can’t be friends then. ? (I think it’s just a dumb redneck thing) 

 

On 3/2/2020 at 12:15 PM, Hawkeye21 said:

Here in Iowa a creek is pronounced crick.

Here in mid Michigan too. 

23 hours ago, J Francho said:

 

Using in' instead of ing at the end, like: fishin', flippin', pitchin', jiggin', etc

I guess we can’t be friends then. ? (I think it’s just a dumb redneck thing) 

 

On 3/2/2020 at 12:15 PM, Hawkeye21 said:

Here in Iowa a creek is pronounced crick.

Here in mid Michigan too. 

1 minute ago, 12poundbass said:

I guess we can’t be friends then. ? (I think it’s just a dumb redneck thing) 

 

Here in mid Michigan too. 

I guess we can’t be friends then. ? (I think it’s just a dumb redneck thing) 

 

Here in mid Michigan too. 

Repeatin'

1 minute ago, J Francho said:

Repeatin'

Yep, I wasn’t patient enough and hit the submit button twice. ?

3 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Yep, I wasn’t patient enough and hit the submit button twice. ?

'splainin'

2 hours ago, Johnbt said:

"and then he'll mention "polaroid" sunglasses."

 

There's nothing wrong with wearing Polaroid glasses.

 

www.polaroideyewear.com/en-ww/home.html

 

edited to add: 

 

"Edwin Land, born in 1909 in Connecticut, invented Polaroid, the world's first polarizing material for commercial use, in 1929. He founded the Polaroid Corporation in 1937 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company initially produced Polaroid Day Glasses, the first sunglasses with a polarizing filter."

Only problem is that the TV host Steveo was referring to is wearing his Strike King sunglasses...