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15th Oct 2019, 6:48 pm | #1 |
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Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
Simple question, about the "Brandes" bit of the name.
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15th Oct 2019, 7:08 pm | #2 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: howe do you pronounce it?
I always said ‘Brands’.
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15th Oct 2019, 7:18 pm | #3 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: howe do you pronounce it?
I've always thought 'Brandeez'...………..
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15th Oct 2019, 8:54 pm | #5 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: howe do you pronounce it?
I prefer 'Brandies'
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15th Oct 2019, 9:27 pm | #6 |
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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.
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15th Oct 2019, 10:58 pm | #7 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
I've always assumed it was "bran-dez".
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16th Oct 2019, 12:32 am | #8 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
I have only ever read the name, BUT being of Polish descent, its Brandez.
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16th Oct 2019, 7:39 am | #9 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
Brand-dez.
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16th Oct 2019, 8:04 am | #10 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
Brand-ez for me too
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16th Oct 2019, 8:12 am | #11 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
Simple. just like Brands with a silent e.
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16th Oct 2019, 9:37 am | #12 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
Always Brands when I was in the trade.
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16th Oct 2019, 9:44 am | #13 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
I thnk that in most European languages it would be Brand-ez.
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16th Oct 2019, 9:50 am | #14 |
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16th Oct 2019, 9:58 am | #15 |
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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.
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16th Oct 2019, 1:00 pm | #16 |
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16th Oct 2019, 4:41 pm | #17 |
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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.
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16th Oct 2019, 5:17 pm | #18 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
Similarly, how do you pronounce RACAL?
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16th Oct 2019, 5:19 pm | #19 |
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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.
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16th Oct 2019, 5:44 pm | #20 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
Loewe anyone?
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