{"id":357,"date":"2008-05-04T08:55:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T08:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2008-05-04T09:17:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T09:17:51","slug":"pronunciation-of-britax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/04\/pronunciation-of-britax\/","title":{"rendered":"Pronunciation of &#8216;Britax&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britax have been making child car seats for as long as I can remember, and I have always pronounced it &#8220;Brit-axe&#8221; as in British. After all, didn&#8217;t they used to have a Union Flag as part of their logo?<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=Qdw9AAAAIAAJ&#038;pg=PA45&#038;lpg=PA45&#038;dq=britax+%22british+accessories%22&#038;source=web&#038;ots=cB-3mqdtFO&#038;sig=aralxr1okxlaudCzWfbko3_ENWU&#038;hl=en\">Dictionary of Trade Name Origins<\/a><\/em>, the name does in fact come from a contraction of &#8216;British Accessories&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you call their customer helpline, they answer as &#8220;Brytax&#8221;? Has it always been this way or is it because they are now German owned and want to lose the British connection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britax have been making child car seats for as long as I can remember, and I have always pronounced it &#8220;Brit-axe&#8221; as in British. After all, didn&#8217;t they used to have a Union Flag as part of their logo? According to the Dictionary of Trade Name Origins, the name does in fact come from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crazy-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}