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turretslug · 16th Oct 2019, 9:58 am

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.

16th Oct 2019, 9:58 am	#15
turretslug Dekatron Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Surrey, UK. Posts: 4,395	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.