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kansashat

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Having no cigar buddies that I can actually talk to (my wife is always saying, I'm NOT your cigar buddy! ;) ), sometimes the proper pronounciation of words & names of cigars can be in question. I have a question.

I have a rather wealthy cigar smoking relative who I saw at Thanksgiving. He smokes some fine cigars like PAM's & OpusX. I gave him a DC #4 last year, which he was unfamiliar with. He asked me how much they were a box & I told him that I paid about $135 for a box of 15 (I know, you can get them cheaper). His response was, "good cigar."
Now, I don't know if he meant the cigar tastes good, or it must be good cause it cost $9 each, but he always talks about how much a cigar costs.

To make a long story short.....

This year I'm telling him about what is popular with most of us mere mortals :D & I give him a CAO Piranha. He said he had heard good things about CAO's, but pronounced it caio (chow) like the Italian word for goodbye. Now, the only exposure I get to the cigar world is right here & I've been calling them C-A-O's (see-ay-oh's) for along time.

Have I been pronouncing the name of this cigar incorrectly?
 
I'm no expert by any stretch Alan but every shop I've been to has pronounced them by the letters C-A-O..
 
kansashat said:
Having no cigar buddies that I can actually talk to (my wife is always saying, I'm NOT your cigar buddy! ;) ), sometimes the proper pronounciation of words & names of cigars can be in question. I have a question.

I have a rather wealthy cigar smoking relative who I saw at Thanksgiving. He smokes some fine cigars like PAM's & OpusX. I gave him a DC #4 last year, which he was unfamiliar with. He asked me how much they were a box & I told him that I paid about $135 for a box of 15 (I know, you can get them cheaper). His response was, "good cigar."
Now, I don't know if he meant the cigar tastes good, or it must be good cause it cost $9 each, but he always talks about how much a cigar costs.

To make a long story short.....

This year I'm telling him about what is popular with most of us mere mortals :D & I give him a CAO Piranha. He said he had heard good things about CAO's, but pronounced it caio (chow) like the Italian word for goodbye. Now, the only exposure I get to the cigar world is right here & I've been calling them C-A-O's (see-ay-oh's) for along time.

Have I been pronouncing the name of this cigar incorrectly?
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LMAO No you have not been pronouncing it incorrectly, as CAO are the initials of the father and founder of the company Cano A. (Aret) Ozgener
 
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C.A.O Saying each letter is correct.


I have a buddy that thought it was pronounced Ciao LOL
 
OpusEx said:
LMAO No you have not been pronouncing it incorrectly, as CAO are the initials of the father and founder of the company Cano A. (Aret) Ozgener
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Well, see that's what I thought cause I knew that, but the smokeshops around here wouldn't know a CAO if it snuck up behind em & bit em on the ash. :r
 
Only thing I would ask, is if your relative could have in any way meant the CAO "ciao" which is a vitola that is part of the CAO Italia line?
 
kansashat said:
but the smokeshops around here wouldn't know a CAO if it snuck up behind em & bit em on the ash. :r
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This is all to common, no matter where you are and what smokeshop you go into :c I'm on a personal mission to change that!
 
Since I have family in Canada (no offense to the fellow cunucks), I am used to words being pronounced different than the US. My family pronounces Delhi as Del-hī (Del-hai) and Celica as Cel-ee-ca and Weber as Weeber. Sounds wierd to me, but I'm not the pronunciation police.

A vendor was I was talking to about cigars says Poonch (Punch) and Co-hī-ba or Co-hai-ba (Cohiba).
 
Moglman said:
Since I have family in Canada (no offense to the fellow cunucks), I am used to words being pronounced different than the US. My family pronounces Delhi as Del-hī (Del-hai) and Celica as Cel-ee-ca and Weber as Weeber. Sounds wierd to me, but I'm not the pronunciation police.

A vendor was I was talking to about cigars says Poonch (Punch) and Co-hī-ba or Co-hai-ba (Cohiba).
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Punch is pronounced: Poonch :)
 
kansashat said:
I have a rather wealthy cigar smoking relative... He smokes some fine cigars like PAM's & OpusX...He said he had heard good things about CAO's, but pronounced it caio
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-if hes gifting pam's and opusx, he can say it how he likes
- i your gifting cao's, pronounce it how you like
- anyone who wants to gift me cao's, say it how you wish

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the folks i know call them c.a.o
 
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