 piper909  | 15 Apr 2017 9:50 a.m. PST |
Aloha! How is Ruga Ruga pronounced? Short or long "u's"? Rugga-Rugga or Rooga-roogah? If I'm going to paint up the hundred or more I have, I might as well know what to call them. |
| piper909 | 15 Apr 2017 9:51 a.m. PST |
Aloha! How is Ruga Ruga pronounced? Short or long "u's"? Rugga-Rugga or Rooga-rooga? If I'm going to paint up the hundred or more I have, I might as well know what to call them. |
| Smokey Roan | 15 Apr 2017 9:53 a.m. PST |
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| Ivan DBA | 15 Apr 2017 10:28 a.m. PST |
I'v always pronounced it with a long U, "rooga roogah." I recon if it was a short u, they would have spelled it with two g's. |
| Cyrus the Great | 15 Apr 2017 10:46 a.m. PST |
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| Chokidar | 15 Apr 2017 11:00 a.m. PST |
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 Herkybird | 15 Apr 2017 11:12 a.m. PST |
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| piper909 | 15 Apr 2017 11:37 a.m. PST |
That's good to know! Thanks, Ruga-Rats! Wooga wooga ruga ruga! You can never have too many, am I right? The double-post whammy struck, too, I see. |
| FlyXwire | 15 Apr 2017 1:59 p.m. PST |
posted-posted!
Piper, are you painting up any of the new North Star Ruga-Ruga, or going all Foundry, or a combination (assuming 28s)? |
| Martin Rapier | 16 Apr 2017 12:04 a.m. PST |
I've always pronounced it with a short u. I'm not sure it really matters. |
| piper909 | 17 Apr 2017 4:19 p.m. PST |
I have mainly a big "horde" of Foundry figures I bought many years ago in one gulp. Also a few extra packs of misc. types that came from I don't know where. Possibly North Star. Yes, 25/28mms. I expect they will see service in Pulp games and also to fight my 1920s Foreign Legion guys, on anti-slavery patrol. Pronunciation matters to their mothers! |
| Tom D1 | 19 Apr 2017 8:19 a.m. PST |
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| mrinku | 19 Apr 2017 4:08 p.m. PST |
Haven't found any direct pronunciation confirmation, but the word pops up in Swahili dictionaries and according to wiki their "u" is always as in "rule" and never reduced. Swahili being the general Bantu lingua franca for the time and place, I'd be happy with that. So looks like it's probably more "Rooga-Rooga". |
| Smokey Roan | 20 Apr 2017 12:28 p.m. PST |
Difference between askaris and Rugg Ruga? |
| Old Contemptibles | 20 Apr 2017 12:31 p.m. PST |
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| mrinku | 20 Apr 2017 2:28 p.m. PST |
Askaris are native troops that are raised as part of the colonial forces and typically led by white officers… equivalent to sepoys in India. Each unit will often be drawn from one tribe or area. At Lugalu in 1891 the Germans had both Sudanese and Zulu Askari units. Ruga-Ruga are typically mercenaries, often escaped slaves, criminals and other outcasts. |
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