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Like many of you here, I always pronounced AyA as "ay wye ay". In the past few years, I've come to respect the fact that this is an abbreviation of the founders' two last names, Miguel Aguirre and Nicolas Aranzabal.
My point is that we should call these guns by their correct name, and that is A and A, which is what AyA means. What say ye?
JR
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Too-many syllabels and a bit of a tongue-twister. Even worse than U-gar-te-cha-ah! I'll freely admit that the use of the founder's names is more-proper, but AyA is fully within the gun-language lexicon now. What is gained by changing it?
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Mr. Roberts: So much for my close-reading skills. To your point, A and A isn't so bad, but it seems we are anglicizing things a bit much? These are Spanish guns after all.
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In Maine, they just pronounce it "Ah-yah", accent on the last syllable.
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And a gun snob might say, "Well, it's not an English gun, so who really GaF".
Socialism is almost the worst.
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I certainly don't GaF. I heard a guy at the local gun club say he has a pair of "ahhh-eeeee-ahhhh's". Result....immediate eye roll.
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Mr. Roberts: So much for my close-reading skills. To your point, A and A isn't so bad, but it seems we are anglicizing things a bit much? These are Spanish guns after all. But "A and A" IS the Spanish way to say AyA, isn't it? The letter "y" means "and" in Spanish. JR
Last edited by John Roberts; 03/11/14 07:46 PM.
Be strong, be of good courage.
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I believe the spanish pronounciation would be ah e ah.
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Do A and A guns have polished action flats?
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Do A and A guns have polished action flats? Aye. JR
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