How do you pronounce Lapua?

How do you pronounce Lapua? I’ve heard too many people pronounce this differently, sometimes in ways that make me tilt my head like a dog hearing a high-pitched noise.

what’s the correct pronunciation, is it lah-POO-ah? lah-PAW? LOP-wah? lah-WTF?..

I have heard others pronounce it: la POO ah

I don’t know if that’s right or not.

My money’s on “La-pu-ah”.

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Sounds like he is saying la POO ah to me.

It does sound like La-POO-ah.

It almost sounds like La-Poo, with the ah trailing off.

Maybe La-Poo? with the ah coming just under the breath?

these two are pretty funny.

try to pronounce vihtavuori…

Vee-tah-vorie…

That’s the way I’ve always heard it pronounced.

La Poo Uhh

i’ve heard it as veeta-vee-oree

I pronounce it “ouch”!

The pronounced it “La Pooh Ah” on CSI miami the other night! :smiley:

Damn that show is retarded. But I still watched some of it!

If you are English, I bet it’s lap as in lap dance, LAP-you-uh. This is based on them pronouncing Jaguar as JAG-you-are and aluminum as al-you-MINium :smiley:

Hey I love all things English- cars, bikes, muffins, accents…

But as one of Finnish descent I’m gonna say LAHpooah where the “pooah” is almost like “pwah”. Just my semi-educated guess.

Pronounced Lap wha, Ned gets the shiney ring