View Poll Results: Is it a strap or a strop?

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  • Strap

    4 4.08%

  • Strop

    91 92.86%

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    5 5.10%
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  1. 09-05-2008, 03:57 AM #2
    ChrisL
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    I say strop, but strap sounds fine to me. What bugs me, and I don't know where it comes from (maybe I'm ignorant to this and the following is accepted):......STROPE

    I've heard people pronounce strop as strope with a long O. Even a barber in his late twenties who's never shaved himself nor shaved anyone else with a traditional straight edge razor pronounced it Strope when I was talking with him recently.

    What's the deal with STROPE??? Is it legit, or is it like: "EXPRESSO"?

    Chris L
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