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2013/12/12 00:24:47
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Morphing Obliterator
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Quick question, how do you pronounce lasgun/cannon/pistol? I have heard it pronounced both ways.
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2013/12/12 00:25:41
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Grisly Ghost Ark Driver
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2013/12/12 00:26:54
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Courageous Space Marine Captain
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I always say "Lass"
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2013/12/12 00:27:56
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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2013/12/12 00:29:44
Subject: Re:"Layz" vs "Laz"
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Ultramarine Librarian with Freaky Familiar
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Ive read the official way of pronouncing it is "Layz-gun" as in a shortened version of laser gun. I pronounce it "lazz-gun" because it sounds better.
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2013/12/12 00:46:18
Subject: Re:"Layz" vs "Laz"
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Frightening Flamer of Tzeentch
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Laz. Layz is just not as nice to roll off the tongue.
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2013/12/12 00:47:32
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
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"Layz-gun" is absolutely stupid. I know that's GW's official stance, but that's dumb.
Las-gun. Laz-gun. If they wanted it to be "layz-gun", they should have spelled it "lase-gun".
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2013/12/12 00:48:43
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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The Hive Mind
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 Psienesis wrote:"Layz-gun" is absolutely stupid. I know that's GW's official stance, but that's dumb.
Las-gun. Laz-gun. If they wanted it to be "layz-gun", they should have spelled it "lase-gun".
What he said.
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2013/12/12 00:52:21
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Las - gun. Because 40,000 years in the future, it's entirely probable that no one outside of a few Magos Sollex know what LASER means/is.
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2013/12/12 00:57:14
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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I've always used the short A.
Buy "Layz" makes sense given that it's etymologically a mashup of "laser gun" into a single word.
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2013/12/12 01:28:47
Subject: Re:"Layz" vs "Laz"
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Hellish Haemonculus
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I pronounce it laz. Rhymes with spaz.
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2013/12/12 01:30:09
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Tzeentch Aspiring Sorcerer Riding a Disc
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I get why they say lay... but I'm a Laz type of guy here. Just rolls off the tongue naturally.
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2013/12/12 01:55:12
Subject: Re:"Layz" vs "Laz"
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Fixture of Dakka
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Yeah, I have called it a Laz-gun for the last 20 years. I once heard William Hurt yell out "Layz-Gun" in the newer Dune movie, and boy did it sound awkward, even if it's "technically" more accurate.
Plus...Low Gothic pronounces it "lazzer". Duh. 
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2013/12/12 02:11:18
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Laze-cannon
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2013/12/12 02:17:33
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Hurr! Ogryn Bone 'Ead!
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I find myself pronouncing it like this, too. Maybe it is just an accent thing, since while I'm not entirely consistent (damn Canadian straddling of US and British English) I tend to spell things like 'realise' instead of 'realize,' so I'm used to not flattening S sounds into Z sounds.
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2013/12/12 02:18:28
Subject: Re:"Layz" vs "Laz"
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Esteemed Veteran Space Marine
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 AegisGrimm wrote: I once heard William Hurt yell out "Layz-Gun" in the newer Dune movie, and boy did it sound awkward, even if it's "technically" more accurate.
Ugh. I remember that line. That was just one of the many, many words in that miniseries that were pronounced markedly different than they were in the Dino De Laurentis film.
And, it's pronounced "lazz" in 40K, because the Emperor says so. Really. That was one of his last proclamations before being plugged into the Golden Throne.
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2013/12/12 02:23:57
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Grisly Ghost Ark Driver
Some Tomb World in some galaxy by that one thing in that one place (or Minnesota for nosy people)
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Lays is a brand of chips and I don't think the IG shoot potatoe chips at their enemies (even if they are more effective then flashlights)
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2013/12/12 02:42:18
Subject: Re:"Layz" vs "Laz"
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Morphing Obliterator
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^ That caused genuine out loud real life laughter. and I vote laz because it sounds so much cooler.
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2013/12/12 02:53:43
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Depraved Slaanesh Chaos Lord
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I used to pronounce it "laz" because it sounds better and makes sense phonetically. But I'm used to referring to it as "laze" now.
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2013/12/12 19:11:34
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?
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Laz-gun. Just sounds better.
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2013/12/13 04:22:54
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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Lazz.
A lays gun would shoot potato chips, not balls of light.
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
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2013/12/13 05:31:06
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Stealthy Grot Snipa
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There is:
Layz-gun "Plays-gun"
Lahz-gun "Oz-gun"
Lass-gun "Like Pokemon 'Lass' "
Lahs-gun "Loss-gun"
Lase-gun "Lace-gun"
And probably more pronunciations.
I say "Lahz-gun" like "Oz-gun"
Though with the introduction of the "Long Las" (sniper rifle) into this debate, does the pronunciation of anyone's choice match up between the two sides?
Saying "Long Lahz" sounds like something Congress would come up with.
"Long Lass" makes more sense here.
So I think maybe, the "correct" pronunciation would be "Lass-gun" as it fits both. (Even if it sounds different.)
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2013/12/13 06:17:48
Subject: Re:"Layz" vs "Laz"
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I pronounce it "las" as it simply sounds better. Also, 1d4chan's terminology of the pronunciation makes me laugh too much to pronounce it "layz"
"some players know the lascannon as the "lays-cannon". YOU WISH IT COULD SHOOT POTATO CHIPS! - 1d4chan.org
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2013/12/13 08:03:11
Subject: Re:"Layz" vs "Laz"
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Warp-Screaming Noise Marine
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I pronounce it /'læz-/, that is "las". "Lays" is silly, IMHO
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2013/12/13 15:04:08
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Stormin' Stompa
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Lass.
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2013/12/13 16:30:13
Subject: Re:"Layz" vs "Laz"
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Bloodthirsty Bloodletter
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Laz. Definitely Laz. Layz-gun/cannon just sounds silly.
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2013/12/13 17:57:47
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces
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A Lays gun? Does it fire potato chips? Me want!
I pronounce it as Lass. With a sissing 's'.
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2013/12/13 18:00:36
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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But it's British so they'd be crisps, and they'd be Walkers.
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2013/12/13 18:05:17
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces
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And there'd be tea. And biscuits. Nice biscuits.
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2013/12/13 18:21:01
Subject: "Layz" vs "Laz"
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Nice biscuits are French, we'd have Digestives and Hobnobs
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