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Why don't you just use the goode ole' American way and cut the name down to Ugar, or perhaps change it to Ugarley, Ugarlland?

I spoke with Terry Weiland about this several years ago. He is, of course, the author of "Spanish Best," and is a personal friend of Ignacio Ugartechea. Terry will quickly chastise anyone who calls the name simple "Uggie," thinking that is a disrespect to the long honored Basque family name. It really isn't difficult to pronounce it correctly. He affirms the pronounciation that Newlyn1 suggests as being the proper way to pronounce the name. We know them primarily for lower end and middle grade guns, but they also make some exquisite high end guns as well. I have a wonderful pair of Merkel 303 clones, sidelock O/U designs with outstanding small scroll engraving, that are better put together guns that an original Merkel 303 that I compared them to side by side. Mine are in 12 and 20 gauges, these are the best guns that they have produced. They will still make them on special order only. I am very much a Merkel fan, BTW, I have several of them, and my Ugartechea clones are superior to the Merkels. I would venture that most Americans have never seen Ugartechea guns of this quality. The little boxlock guns sold under the Parker Hale name a few years back are sweet little field guns, and they usually can be had welll under $1,000.

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IF you're wearing orange when you say it, you can't go wrong. a gear A ee I runs th ball is way more fun.

jack

Jack, you didn't rrrrrroll your RRs enough on Ah-ee-Ah! (I notice that when I really rrrroll an RR when attempting to speak Spanish to a person of Mexican origin, they cackle at me like the roosters I miss do. Could there be any connection between these two phenomena? I'd be tempted to make some generalization about invasive species, but 1) I like both pheasants and Mexicans and think the country would be poorer without them, and 2) Even us Scotch-Irish qualify as "invasive" by several standards.).

I'm proficient in only one dialect of anything; slur and drawl. The wee free still prefer to be appelated "Scots" but last time I brought this up it was suggested that I would be a good fit for a cookpot in New Guinea so I have to be careful with the recherche of the ethno stuff.

jack

Newly1,



It is not my authority but a Basque friend's. No "y" sound in the pronunciation.
BTW Kurlansky doesn't sound terribly Basque to me.

Eightbore, if you can say "bring me the check" or "your cheque bounced" you should be able to pronounce the "che". And if you can say "I have to stay at home" you should be able to say the last "a".

JC(AL)

I was good to the final sillylabble. I have now practised "stay at" and "chez at" and have managed to replace ah with a. If Ikanuba, ukanuba. All together 1. . 2. . 3 UGARTECHEA. Bless You!

But seriously folks, I think Weiland does a heck of a job embedding Basque gunmaking in the 20th C Spanish political context. And thanks for the poem, Newlyn.

jack (SLSN)