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Old 19th Feb 2021, 3:17 pm   #21
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I find a good way to avoid getting a tip or repeat business is to correct customers' pronunciation!
Oreeon, Matusi, Teffelunken and Bird are makes I come across, also Boss radios and Logik with a hard 'g'. I didn't know Sodastream made TVs till I reaslised it was a Sandstrom!
However I can understand where Loewe owners have a problem, myself included. I always thought it was Lo-wee or Lee-wee until I was put right.
How do you pronounce it? I always thought it was Lo-Wee.......

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I can understand where Loewe owners have a problem, myself included. I always thought it was Lo-wee or Lee-wee until I was put right.
I trust the person who put you right pronounced it "Lerva" (Loewe being the German for Wolf), though I notice that a lot of foreign brands themselves Anglicise their names. One that immediately springs to mind is Braun which seems to be "Brawn" in Britain rather than (approximately) "Brown" and Kärcher as "Car-cher" rather than (again approximately) "care-her" - whose hard "h" is more like the "ch" in Loch.
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a tv engineer i knew was colour blind couldnt tell red yellow orange he removed a system switch from a 405/625 set cant remember what set but it was a long silder switch with lots and lots of wires he made a drawing of conections but left b4 replacing said switch many red with 1 knot red with 2 knots etc no yellow or orange at all what a mess also called germanium transistors geranium
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I've heard fluorescent tube starters referred to as starter motors. ��
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When I was a little lad I was hell-bent on taking things to pieces, as one did, and a kindly neighbour gave me an old wind-up gramophone to play with.

I came bounding into the house after I'd been fiddling, waving the thing with three flattened brass balls attached to spring steel and a worm drive on the end.

'Dad! I've got the minister out of it!'
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How do you pronounce it? I always thought it was Lo-Wee.......
The correct German pronunciation is "Lurva" (means lion). A bit like Lowenbrau is correctly pronounced "Lurvenbroi" (lion's brew). And Braun is correctly pronounced "brown", not "brorn"
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Those who were in the trade some years ago will be familiar with customers phoning to say the 'picture valve' has gone.

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And then, the "colour valve"!
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I know of someone who had difficulty when phoning a certain German manufacturer of domestic appliances/power-tools and asking if they could supply new bushes for the motor in his hammer-drill.

Yes they could supply both Bushes and Brushes! Eventually it was established that my friend needed brushes not bushes.

I also giggled profoundly when someone regularly talked about an "Osculator" rather than an oscillator.

Osculation - derived from the latin Osculare - means kissing!
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One from the customers point of view.

I have more than once asked for 110 volt lamps and been told that 100 watts is close enough.
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A bit like Lowenbrau is correctly pronounced "Lurvenbroi" (lion's brew).
My O-level German tells me that Lowenbräu (with umlaut) will be pronounced "Lurvenbroi".
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I remember a prize draw type competition over 30 years ago to win a new TV set. As usual there was a question to answer thus making it legally not a pure game of chance and avoiding certain regulations.

Anyway the question was 'What does NICAM stand for?' The problem was that in the text of the competition it was given a 'Near Instantaneous Compounded Audio Multiplex' whereas I knew it be 'Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex'.....
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I trust the person who put you right pronounced it "Lerva" (Loewe being the German for Wolf)....
The German for wolf is Wolf.

As an aside, Wolfram is the German for tungsten, which is why the chemical symbol is W. Of course, 'w' is pronounced 'v' in German. And 'v' is pronounce 'f'.
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Apart from "Scarf" leads, the most grating to me was always the variations on Mitsubishi, Mistibushy probably being the most common.
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In two different industries I've had to put up with people talking about Mat-ser-boo-shee.
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The German for wolf is Wolf.
You are indeed correct. Apologies for a senior moment.
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In two different industries I've had to put up with people talking about Mat-ser-boo-shee.
I doubt Panasonic's original name will even make it through the forum's profanity filter.
Mat-su-****-a
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Yes they could supply both Bushes and Brushes! Eventually it was established that my friend needed brushes not bushes.
What? The carbon things that press against the commentator?

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I doubt Panasonic's original name will even make it through the forum's profanity filter.
Mat-su-****-a
Pronounced Mat-soosh-ta which doesn't sound so bad.

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Back in the '60s there were certain 'engineers' who spoke about Geranium semiconductors, maybe they were keen gardeners in their spare time . . .

Myself, I was guilty of calling the I.F. the Indeterminate Frequency until I was corrected by a friend . . .
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Yes they could supply both Bushes and Brushes! Eventually it was established that my friend needed brushes not bushes.
What? The carbon things that press against the commentator?

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I bet they could supply two different kinds of brushes, bristle & carbon along with the bushes.
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