How do you pronounce...

[CoogarXR]

Knipex?

I had never heard of the brand until I started reading this forum. Now when I see that word, I get all Howard Huges and it repeats over and over in my head, lol.

Anyways... Is it nip-X, nye-pecks, kuh-nip-picks, or something else entirely?

 

[jsackin]

Kuh-ni-pex

 

[jsackin]

Though everyone here pronounces it "Ni-pex".

 

[fsae0607]

I say "Nye-pecks".

 

[IUEC Medic]

Nip icks

 

[firworks]

I would also say Nye-Pex, though I know it is really Ka-ni-pex.

 

[maxpower_hd]

I saw a video demo of one of their products and they pronounced it ken-ip-ex.

 

[Git]

You guys are all wrong - except maxpower who posted while I was posting

Kin a pex

call the number and listen to the greeting
1 847 398-8520

 

[Monte]

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[Bill Bowman]

^^^I just listened to the recording. "Kuh-nip-ex". So, what is it????

 

[maxpower_hd]

Hmmm. The video I saw was similar only they spoke English...as in England.

 

[CNGsaves]

Didn't understand many of the German words in video . . . .
. . . . BUT . . . . as usual AWESOME post by MONTE !!

I'll agree it sounds like Kuh-nip-ex . . . . AND . . Now I WANT that table full !!
**** . . . . . looking at video again . . there's whole pegboard behind him TOO !!!

Did hear "Twin Force" at end when he was showing the spring loaded . . . NICE !!

 

[fatfillup]

Germans pronounce all the letters in a work so it definitely starts with a K sound

 

[Rich.]

In the UK i've only ever heard it pronounced Nip-ex.

 

[TK-421]

It's either nip icks or ni pecks or maybe even nip ecks, hard to tell with the UK accent.

Or kuh nip ex or kuh nip icks, if you're from Germany. Again, hard to tell exactly due to the accent, at least for me.

Japan apparently is the same as Germany in regards to pronunciation.

This one seems to be kuh knee pex

I find it interesting how many different pronunciations there are even within the company itself. I figured everybody in the company would say it the same way and that would give us a clear answer.

 

[TK-421]

I saw a video demo of one of their products and they pronounced it ken-ip-ex.

If you watch more of their videos they actually pronounce it several different ways, depending on which part of the world the person is from.

 

[betsy325e]

ah bay say day A eff gay, hah, EEE, yot, kot, ell, em, en, OH pay, koo, errr, ess, tay...

single "I" auf deutsch pronounced long E.

 

[Krause]

^^^I just listened to the recording. "Kuh-nip-ex". So, what is it????

Id go by that one as its the way the actual German representatives pronounce it when doing demonstration videos.

 

[zkling]

Kuh-ni-pex

This

Back when Lowes was closing out their pliers I ran into this "Retired Electrical RF engineer" that insisted on correcting me that the K is silent "grasshopper". Told him he was wrong, pulled out my phone dialed the company and put it on speaker phone. Then gave him my usual "It must be difficult being old and ignorant" rant.

Don't believe me? (847) 398-8520

 

[K-Dog]

I say Kin-ip-ex.
Based on a video.

 

[KnurledNut]

This

Back when Lowes was closing out their pliers I ran into this "Retired Electrical RF engineer" that insisted on correcting me that the K is silent "grasshopper". Told him he was wrong, pulled out my phone dialed the company and put it on speaker phone. Then gave him my usual "It must be difficult being old and ignorant" rant.

Don't believe me? (847) 398-8520

Funny stuff right there....

 

[disston]

I say Nye-Pex and I'm not going to change.

A name is a handle and I will use it the way I want.

 

[BDT/NWMN]

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Monte; You earned an A+ for teasing the rest of US

 

[Strouty]

What if you are not German?

 

[Vantastic]

Chan-el-law-k

 

[anndel]

Sounds like he says kin-nee-picks and lots of schneider.

 

[OkRider]

Tow-may-toe, tow-ma-toe. Po-ta-toe, po-taw-toe.

 

[FMC1959]

The how-to-pronounce YouTube video

 

[davewo]

I really have a mental block pronouncing the K. I will have to stick with my American "Nipex."

 

[CoogarXR]

LOL! I am glad I'm not the only one who didn't know! Reminds me of the "how to pronounce Linux" argument in the IT world...

 

[chipss36]

I just call em channel locks, if I called em by there name no one around here would know what I was talking about....lol

 

[lakeroadster]

As Ricky Bobby would say: Your in America now, and we're Americans.

Along those same lines, The Geneva Convention clearly states that each of us, I am speaking to Americans and our Allies, can pronounce any word any way we want.

It's known as "The Spoils Of War".

Thank a Veteran.

 

[barnonline]

The problem seems to be that in english there is no where a word starting with kn, where the k is pronounced.
So when the english speaking person tries to pronounce the k, it is almost impossibru for them not to add a vowel afterwards.

In my ears it sound as strange as if you pronounced crack as cirack

 

[fatfillup]

The how-to-pronounce YouTube video

Thanks for the video. That is how I thought the Germans said it.

I'll stick with nip ex personally.

I do business with a German based train brake manufacturer. It is Knorr Brake.
They pronounce it K nor. Took me a bit to get used to it but since they are spending money with me, I'll play by their rules.

 

[maxpower_hd]

OK. So is LeMans lu-muhnz or leh-moh? I had a 1970 LeMans and i will stick with lu-muhnz.

 

[CoogarXR]

Luh-maahnz here, with a drawn "a", like a Bostonian would say it