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16th Oct 2019, 6:18 pm | #21 |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
If I were saying "lion" in German, I would pronounce "Loewe" (or more properly "Löwe") as "ler-ve[r]" (i.e. the second "er" is short - pronounced without sounding the "r"). Unless told otherwise, I would therefore pronounce the brand name likewise.
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
I knew a guy who imported numerous radios etc from Germany, and he always pronounced it "Ler-ver", but without to much of the -er at the end.
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
I've always said /'reɪ,cæl/, RAY-càl -- more like "apple" than "about", and certainly not like "all".
I'd recognise "Loewe" as German and pronounce it /,lə:və/, ler-ver, with minor emphasis and a longer duration vowel sound on the first syllable.
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
'Lower' is about the nearest I can get.
Racal I pronounce 'RAY-cal' Short 'a' in cal, as in cat. As for Brandes, I say Brands.
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
w is pronounced v in German so its low-ve
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I was thinking it was that, until I read the above posts.
Then again I used to think Goethe was "go-th" rather than "Ger-ter" much to the amusement of my Dad!
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
here's a TV advert for Racal-Vodaphone. For a definitive answer, it's at 50s in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0JBKBhulJY I also call it Brands. It seems, historically at least, that most british manufacturers with foreign roots, such as KB and Nestle's tended to disguise their foreignness as it was considered bad for business. Only when globalism necessitates a standard brand (Snickers, anyone?) do the purists get their way and nessells becomes ness-lay, jif becomes cif and mullard becomes Philips....
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That's as I recall from my schooldays, but as in English when it comes to names rather than general words, all bets are off. My friend is called Oulat, but it's pronounced 'Awlt'.
And if I recall correctly, in German 'ie' gives an ee (as in die) and ei is eye (as in ein), but names don't necessarily follow this convention. Weinstein would probably be pronounced Vine-styne in Germany, but in the USA he seems to be called Wine-steen. In the end I suppose it should be pronounced as the family does.
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I've never had to say it... but I'd go for KB rather than mispronounce the name.
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Another conundrum is 'Bulgin'. I've always pronounced it to rhyme with 'begin', but some people say 'gin' as in the stuff used to dilute your tonic.
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No idea, but a schoolfriend of mine was definitely Bul jin with short u and i sounds.
At Racal Comms in the '70s we were definitely Raycle long a short a think of cycle.
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EKCO sometimes causes confusion, although not someone's name.
Nestle's actually changed their name in English-speaking regions, for reasons unclear, but probably to do with eliminating the 's possessive case, which is specific to English, and alien in other markets. Cadbury's did the same, at about the same time. How do you pronounce 'Binatone'? |
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
Actually, the last bit is Brand as in English with Ess tacked on the end if you want the original German pronunciation of the surname.
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Re: Kolster-Brandes: how do you pronounce it?
Of course, it's only partially true to say it's not someone's name, in that it is part of the name "E.K. Cole". I find the confusion here is not so much the pronunciation as the spelling - as the "K" and "C" often get swapped.
It had never occurred to me to pronounce it anything but "Bine-a-tone" (long "i") - the same as I would pronounce the beginning of "binary".
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