"Garand" pronunciation
Since purchasing my M-1 4 years ago I have gone through several hundred gun magazines dating back to 1954. I've kept most of my own and have bought several boxes of them at garage sales. I've gone through them numerous times and made up 3 ring binders for all of the guns I own and for several aquaintances. I have two drawers of a filing cabinet full of articles on various arms.
Any way, in my M-1 binder I have an article from the Feb. '92 issue of The American Rifleman wherin a reader asks about the correct pronunciation of "Garand".
The answer says: The accent should be on the first syllable.
In a footnote on the first page of his Book of the Garand, Maj. Gen. Julian S. Hatcher wrote the following:
"Pronounced with the hard G as in go, and the stress on the first syllable, to rhyme with parent(except that the final sound is a d instead of t)."
This pronunciation can be relied on for, in 1920, when Hatcher was a Major in Army Ordinance, he firts met John Cantius Garand at Springfield Armory, and they came to know each other well over the years.
I think this is interesting/important and not just a to-mate-o/to-mot-o, po-tate-o/po-tot-o kinda thing.
What do you folks think?
Any way, in my M-1 binder I have an article from the Feb. '92 issue of The American Rifleman wherin a reader asks about the correct pronunciation of "Garand".
The answer says: The accent should be on the first syllable.
In a footnote on the first page of his Book of the Garand, Maj. Gen. Julian S. Hatcher wrote the following:
"Pronounced with the hard G as in go, and the stress on the first syllable, to rhyme with parent(except that the final sound is a d instead of t)."
This pronunciation can be relied on for, in 1920, when Hatcher was a Major in Army Ordinance, he firts met John Cantius Garand at Springfield Armory, and they came to know each other well over the years.
I think this is interesting/important and not just a to-mate-o/to-mot-o, po-tate-o/po-tot-o kinda thing.
What do you folks think?
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I say it GAY-RAND 0 -
gar-uhnd is what I have always heard, but dictionary also has ga-rand as an alternative. I would think the historical connection is pretty authoritative. 0 -
In WW 2 basic training we occasionaly called it a Ga-rand. But it was properly known a a M-1 Rifle. (Rifle. Cal .30 M-1). What ever one calls it it was the best battle rifle of WW 2. Bar none. 0 -
U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M-1.
GUH-rand.
It remains the second best battle rifle of all time, in the world. Second only to the legendary M-14.
Doug0 -
According to one of the speakers at the 2006 NRA convention's, "M1 Garand Symposium," the correct pronunciation is Gar (like the fish) And. This comes after he interviewed John Garand's widow and asked for correct pronunciation. 0 -
It's supposed to be a bit like what we did to "Mi nay" when we anglicized it to "Mi knee" ball.
The sources I've read say the rifle is a "guh RAND" , with the emphasis on the second syllable, but was designed by John "Gare (like in Gary) end, with the emphasis on the first syllable. His family said in an interview that it should rhyme with "errand".
I wasn't there, it's just what I've read.[;)][:D]0 -
Doug Wilson: Got to agree with you about the Guh-rand . But it still was the best. The M-14 was a "spin off" of the M-1 rifle in most ways
and not all original to say the least.0 -
That's WHY the M-14 is superior. It used the M-1 as a starting platform and improved from there.
The only downside of the M-14 is that it used the wimpy little 7.62 Nato instead of the far better .30-06.
Doug0 -
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B-A-N-G ![^] 0
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