How do you pronounce Knipex?

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Hey lads i am wondering how you pronounce Knipex? After watching so many Youtube videos i see a lot of people from America and Canada pronounce the K heavily.

Here we dont say the K in Knipex its more so pronounced Nipex. Seeing as there is a few Germans on here maybe they can tell us the proper way? Is it pronounced Nienpex :stuck_out_tongue:

Is the K silent?

I think its more of an accent thing? Also see this with Exedy clutches a lot.

I found a British video from Knipex they say it like us.

Yes i am addicted to tool reviews!

I have heard Ave also pronounce Knipex like this guy.

So what is really going on?

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I’m not german (well, almost, the language is similar) but for sure the K is not silent.

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The ‘k’ is certainly not silent! :smiley:

Here’s a video from Knipex’s page of product information videos.

The German presenter pronounces it twice in the first 15 seconds.

Here’s a list of 844 German words beginning with ‘kn.’

I dropped a handful of them into Google Translate. Click the small speaker icon at lower left to hear their pronunciation.

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If it’s supposed to be pronounced the German way, the K wouldn’t be silent, and the i would be like clip and tip, it would be pronounced ‘knip ex’
In English i suppose you could say ‘nip ex’.

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Very interesting its like in between both of the other videos lol. Cool!

Also the way we say k it isn’t a very pronounced k.

The only German i know is from Rammstein lol

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English version is silent K, Zee Germans pronounce the K….

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I have learned to pronounce it like you spell it, sounds like Tipp-ex but then just with the “K”

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There is definitely an ‘n’ in there right after the “K” :slight_smile:

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Knipex

That’s the K sorted out but what about the P?

Is it P as in Pea or Peck?

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Love these tools, and have several. I always pronounced it nipex, but most of the time pronounce it pliers.

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It’s knee with a k and pex

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You pronounce it “Pass me the damn Pliers” :smiley:

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Poorly

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It’s Cnippex.

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ex•pen•sive

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Jamie says Nye-Pex at 5:30.

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Busted! I believe our German friend. After all, these are tools made in Germany.

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I've been pronouncing it wrong since the mid 90s when the company I worked for first started selling their tools. It'll always be Nippex to me. :)

kuh-Nee-pex is how the company itself pronounces it. kuh-Nip-ex is the accepted form for foreigners.

They need to produce a flashlight....

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Hmm...browsed by their youtube to see what was new besides their Engineer screw pliers ripoff, and listening to this company manager he makes it sound like "keepex"...what the heck.

0:51 to 1:06 he says it twice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZwJ3_f1WQ

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Engineer 8” plier = best plier :disguised_face: