Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

Simple question, about the "Brandes" bit of the name.

Do you pronounce it "Brands" or "Brandeez"?

Re: Kolster-Brandes: howe do you pronounce it?
 

I always said ‘Brands’.

Re: Kolster-Brandes: howe do you pronounce it?
 

So do I, but for the best part of my life I've always pronounced Nestlé wrong so I don't really know.

John

Re: Kolster-Brandes: howe do you pronounce it?
 

I've always thought 'Brandeez'...………..

Andy

Re: Kolster-Brandes: howe do you pronounce it?
 

I prefer 'Brandies'

Frank C.

Re: Kolster-Brandes: howe do you pronounce it?
 

Pretty sure when I worked at ITT-KB in Hastings during my gap year it was Brands or perhaps Branduz.

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

I've always assumed it was "bran-dez".

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

I have only ever read the name, BUT being of Polish descent, its Brandez.

Joe

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

Brand-dez.

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

Brand-ez for me too

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

Simple. just like Brands with a silent e.

Mike

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

Always Brands when I was in the trade.

Lawrence.

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

I thnk that in most European languages it would be Brand-ez.
Knowing the nationality of the gentleman concerned would make it easier. Tony.

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

From Mikes KB museum site, Brandes was a Canadian company.

http://kbmuseum.org.uk/history.htm

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

I suspect that, as with the derivation of "OK" or "Kilroy", there may be a number of "definitive" answers! I'd be inclined to pronounce it as Brand-es (short 'e', soft 's') but English argot is infamous for making a meal of foreign-origin words (Elephant and Castle, Jerusalem artichoke). I always used to smile faintly at the way the uninitiated would pronounce Weber (the fuel systems manufacturer, not the composer) as if they were German rather than Italian.

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

Appended to Kolster we all know what is meant. KB is much easier!

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

It was unusual to say the whole name, as per Bill's post we just said KB.

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

Similarly, how do you pronounce RACAL?

Rayckle, Ray-Cal, or Rackle?

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

I have never heard it called anything but Brands. I was a KB/ITT dealer and the rep always called it Brands. J.

Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
 

Loewe anyone?