Hawken Pronunciation/spelling fun!

[tenngun]

Mine was a trilobite, named wiggles.

Was it kinda a crabby?

 

[tenngun]

I have dyslexia that effects my ability to spell, and names with faces is very difficult. So Hawken and kin both look the same to me unless I’m concentrating very hard
Spelling has changed a lot.
Raleigh North Carolina is named after sir Walter Raleigh who spelled his name Ralegh.
About his time Good Queen Bess wrote ‘He made the wyndes blow to scatter mine enemies’
English only exist because eighteenth century Englishman mispronounced and misspelled most of their language.
Dinosaurs died out about sixty five million years ago, about the same time a big meteor hit the earth and lates down a layer of ash. Below that ash is the Cretaceous above the paleogene above. We used to call that the tertiary.
It’s called the KT boundary T for tertiary k for Cretaceous
K? Well it’s from German er ah Deutsch. Their geologist discovered the Cretaceous and spelled it with a k.
Of course we call them German because one of the tribes that invaded Roman Provence’s were the Cimbri. Latin used G and C the same or nearly so to get a K sound. ( why kelts in Greek became Gaul in Latin and Celt in English) So Cimbri was pronounced Kimbri but sometimes spelled Gimbri and that misspelling gave us a miss pronunciation of Germany
We wouldn’t have to go to far back in the brother Hawkens ancestors before the name changed.

 

[Mike Thompson]

Having multiple Hawken Rifles is what I call a good thing.
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[Are. M.]

Hockin'.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

Drives me nuts when I see someone posting "I just got a new Hawkins rifle. Should I buy Pyrodex or Blackhorn 209 to put in it?"

 

[Bent Sight]

Fishin', Huntin', Shootin', Hawkin.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

So, like, Stephen Hawking?

 

[Newtire]

Have to agree with the O.P.

Mostly see new members spell Hawken incorrectly; but some long term members make the same mistake.

Am far from educated on English language rules but spell fairly well. This spelling misuse is like fingernails on a chalkboard for me.

Some people worry about the smallest details. Suppose you're stuck in a foxhole with a buddy and he's out of ammo and you're too hurt to shoot. He asks you for a clip. Are you going to try to correct him by insisting he calls it a magazine? So you do and he hands you a copy of Muzzleloader magazine. What then huh?

 

[Billy Boy]

I have to release some of my OCD this afternoon. It is a Hawken rifle. It is not a Hawkin, Hawkins, or Hawkens. I’m curious if the word Hawken is used the same as the word deer? There is a deer in my yard. There are ten deer in my yard. Saying “There are ten deers in my yard” is just wrong lol!!! Is it....I have four Hawken rifles or I have four Hawkens rifles? I’ve had way too much coffee!!!

Its OK Treeman, lots of us were toilet trained at gunpoint.....

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

Some people worry about the smallest details. Suppose you're stuck in a foxhole with a buddy and he's out of ammo and you're too hurt to shoot. He asks you for a clip. Are you going to try to correct him by insisting he calls it a magazine? So you do and he hands you a copy of Muzzleloader magazine. What then huh?

This isn't about a life or death battle going on, it's just a conversation amongst people interested in the same topic. Nothing wrong with anyone learning the correct way on any topic.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Drives me nuts when I see someone posting "I just got a new Hawkins rifle. Should I buy Pyrodex or Blackhorn 209 to put in it?"

Especially when they want to use Pyrodex or Blackhorn 209!

 

[TFoley]

Well my dad calls his boots brogans. Groceries come in a brown or plastic poke. Maw is cookin up some vittles on the pot belly while all them youngins play with that tater gun. It’s gonna snow a**hole deep to a ten foot ***** tonight. This is my hillbilly life!!

The word 'Bróga' is Irish for 'shoes'. Shíl mé gur mhaith leat é sin a fháil amach.

 

[TreeMan]

Especially when they want to use Pyrodex or Blackhorn 209!

Blasphemy!!! It’s easier to sit in my recliner and order Goex to be shipped to my door than go to Walmart for some pyrodex. Almost everything in this sport is only available online, including real blackpowder.

 

[pwbsmokey]

Whether you spell it Hawken or Hawkin, at least so far no one has been so unkind as to tag a diminuative suffix to the name and made them Hawkies (singular Hawky) the way fans of Remies and Winies have done. It pains me to see grown men doing such.

Or the infamous 12 gauge “shoty”

 

[Grenadier1758]

I'm not really fond of the use of smoothie either.

 

[Ames]

Uh oh. New can o' worms!

 

[Bob McBride]

In my neck of the woods it's Hawk'rn and most definitely there are deers in my yard, and there were three Mooses yesterday, a Boone and Crocker buck and two girl cows....

 

[tenngun]

Well my dad calls his boots brogans. Groceries come in a brown or plastic poke. Maw is cookin up some vittles on the pot belly while all them youngins play with that tater gun. It’s gonna snow a**hole deep to a ten foot ***** tonight. This is my hillbilly life!!

All this about a misspelled name. I grew up thinking vittles was a hillbilly pronunciation of victuals as in Jethro in Beverly hillbillies. I was well in to my twenties pronouncing the c in the word
Took me a long time to learn to spell colonel. And as a good American I still can’t pronounce lieutenant

 

[rednexx]

My Dad used to say he was about 14 or 15 before he knew egg wasn't spelled negg.

 

[Newtire]

This isn't about a life or death battle going on, it's just a conversation amongst people interested in the same topic. Nothing wrong with anyone learning the correct way on any topic.

You're right but I think people tend to make too big of a deal about such small things. We used to refer to semi-auto guns as automatics but today some on-line gamer kid is liable to correct you. But then, this is a fornum about muskets so not to speak about such atrocities anyway. I used to be married to such a gal in an earlier life.