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Originally Posted by stg44fan
Every SA with a Tikka barrel...
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At the risk of alienating even more members here, I would request that you refer to it by its correct name:
Tikkakoski (or at least its American equivalent/spelling).
We have several actual Finnish members here and they
do take offense to the shortening of the name.
I believe
(but can't prove) that shortening it causes it to be construed/confused as a crude Finnish curse...
Something like if a American barrel manufacturer named Dickinson were to be referred to as
"a Dicked barrel"...
Or if a Luger from a well-known deceased member's collection were to be referred to as
"that Shat Luger"...
I hope you get my drift...
Here's another illustration (a true one)...When I was in the Philly Naval Hospital back in '71, the head nurse in the neurosurgery ward was a full lieutenant named Patricia Woods. Very pretty and all business. The corpsmen would call her 'Woodie' behind her back, accompanied with grins & giggles. I never knew what that term meant until the arrival of the Internet (we used another term in WNY).
Now, would you want to be called/ known by a vulgar term??? Or your sister, or wife???
The man had an honorable name: Tikkakoski. Let's honor him by using it.