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How is it correctly pronounced? Saying each letter or as if it were a word? I've heard both.
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I have always thought of it as K.E.F. ?
Keef, works as well.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
I think people say Kef as one word because it is easy and flows. Where as NAD people get shy and think of - well we've discussed that word already.
Other brands like SAE or VTA are spelled out because - well they don't flow.
rarely do i hear K E F, usually it's the word.
i am not always averse to acronyms pronounced as acronyms. i prefer to say or hear N I C U as opposed to nickyou (neonatal intensive care unit). you wouldn't say ickyou if your father were placed in I C U.weugf
i am sensitive to it because i had a daughter that was born 3.5 months early weighing in at 1#6.5oz. she is now 33yo and just fine thank you. sometimes you get your $270K worth.
...regards...tr
Remember the professional skier Peekaboo Street?
She donated a bunch of money to a hospital to help build a new Intensive Care Unit. They decided to name it for her: The Peekaboo ICU.
:)
katie was a 24 week gestation preemie , delivered vaginally which wis way better than caeserian. everything described in the article I read was familiar. she's 32 now and had only moderate lung complications.an unusual result, thankfully.
...regards...tr
Edits: 10/21/16
Never had much to laugh about in the ICU. Especially the NICU
Unless you're a Kiwi and likely say KEEEEF.
But then this guy seems to know:
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I've never heard it pronouced 'keef' or 'kef'.
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Tin-eared audiofool, large-scale-Classical music lover, and damned-amateur fotografer.
William Bruce Cameron: "...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
A little history!
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Nad - as in American slang for goolies.
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"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
Ha! Especially if you have more than one NAD component.
I have three - is there a problem Doc?
I have two, but one is hung lower on the rack.
My buddy Johann Coorg, the Brand Manager for KEF, pronounces it as a word rather than as individual letters. Since he travels the globe in support of the company, I'm guessing his pronunciation is probably correct. However, because KEF is an acronym for "Kent Engineering & Foundry," the company that originally occupied the building, but had gone out of business, when Raymond Cooke started his speaker company in 1961, it would probably be fair to say that either way is perfectly acceptable.
Well that pretty much closes that subject! Thanks!
...KEF.
The other sounds more like Keef Richards.
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Tin-eared audiofool, large-scale-Classical music lover, and damned-amateur fotografer.
William Bruce Cameron: "...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
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