How do you pronounce.....

[Ruth_10]

How do you pronounce 'Hege' in Hege German Pink?

Is it one syllable "hedge"
Two syllables "hedge eh"
Heg-eh
Hee gee
Hay gay

I haven't actually had occasion to say the name of this tomato out loud, but you never know when you might be called upon to do so.

[troad]

Ruth,
Maybe the "H" is silent so it could be like "egg" or maybe eegee?

Hope to find out myself if I can ever get in "One of the Earls" select group of 5 sending him an SASE.

Are you out there Earl ?

[Tom Wagner]

Odd, I took a few minutes to look up some info on this tomato and I got hooked!
I, too, was interested in the proper pronouncing of he Hege name. I was also wanting to know if this selection had anything to do with...
the Tomato, German Pink

One of the two original Bavarian varieties that started SSE. Potatoleaf plants produce large 1-2 pound meaty fruits

My family had a German Pink tomato brought over by my great grandmother from near the Black Forest back in 1888. So who knows what Mr. Hege had when he started to grow the tomato.

German names like Hege can be pronounced all sorts of ways, evident this bit of research....

Sheriff Gerald Hege (pronounced "hedge")
Sheriff Gerald K. Hege (pronounced hayg-ee)
HEGE V (pronounced: Hegg ee / Vee)
Mr. Hege (pronounced HEG-ee)
Hege (pronounced 'Hey-Ga')

Going back into old dictionaries helps but is not definitive...

Hay \Hay\, n. [AS. hege: cf. F. haie, of German origin. See Haw a hedge, Hedge.]
from Middle English hedge, hegge, from Anglo-Saxon *hecg, not found except in the once-occurring dative hegge, written for either *hecge or hege, but the probable source of the modern form hedge (cf. English edge, from Anglo-Saxon ecg; English wedge, from Anglo-Saxon wecg, etc.), the common Anglo-Saxon form being the nearly related hege, later Middle English heye, haye, English hay, q. v.; Anglo-Saxon*hecg = Middle Dutch hegghe, Dutch hegge, heg = Middle Low German hegge = Old High German hegga, hecka, Middle High German G. hecke, a hedge; = Icelandic heggr = Norwegian hegg = Danish hæg = Swedish hägg, a kind of tree, the bird-cherry (see heckberry, hedgeberry, hegberry, hagberry), apparently so called (like the hawthorn, q. v.) because used in hedges. Cf. Swedish häck, Danish hæk, a hedge, prob. after G. The Anglo-Saxon *hecg, English hedge, and Anglo-Saxon hege. English hay, are both from the more primitive form, Anglo-Saxon haga, English haw: see haw, hay.from Middle English hedgen, heggen (= Old Dutch heggehn). hedge, inclose; from hedge, n.

1838 - English language -
HEGE, heag, haeg, es ; d. hegge ; »t. [Plat, hagen m : Dut. haag /: Ger. hag m. hecke/: Для. hekke c: £u>«d. hage m. an enclosed pasture :

1.Hege [n] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 26490 .

The Hege name has been around in the United States for many a couple of centuries or more

Mr. Lacy Eugene Hege Jr. of Welcome, NC deceasd (read more at this site)
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/172752/

Ancestry trivia is here....

______________________________
_Robert Columbus HEGE _|Grandfather
| |______________________________
|
|--LacyEugeneHEGE Sr. Father
|
| _Daniel SINK ____G Grandfather_____________
|_Amanda L V SINK _Grandmother_____|
|_Catherine Annamarie WEISNER Great Grandmother

Bottom Line.
Call someone in the North Carolina area or a relative with the name Hege there and honor L.E Hege, with the way they pronounced the name. The Pennsylvania Dutch or Southern Accent may have modified the original German.

[travis]

Hege > heh' gee or hey' gee (with a hard G)

[creister]

pronounce first he like hen. G is like god , e is short on the end, like in the first syllable.

[travis]

I'm just going by what I hear living around German Americans for over 40 years and listening to them authoritatively tell everyone exactly how German names should be pronounced after a century of American coloquialisation. I'm sure it varies a bit from state to state or region to region.

[OneoftheEarls]

Yes, Troad....I'll wait for your name on the very next list

and I personally say

Mr. Hege (pronounced HEG-ee)

[mvan]

My step-father's last name is Hege (of German descent). He pronounces it as above -- HEG-ee. (like egg with an "H" in front, followed by a hard "e")

Matt

(by the way thats why I jumped on Earl's offer-a few seeds will go to him)

[VGary]

The North Carolina pronunciation for HEGE is He..gee as spoken by my friend Ron Simmons who knew Mr. Hege for many years.
Gary

[clara]

When "Hege" is of German origin, you should pronounce it as Gary says. clara

[ddsack]

Ok, once more for clarity, please? (because gee can also be pronounced soft as in gee-whiz) --

It's a hard G like keg --- Heg..ee (long eee sound)

(Not a soft G/J like hedge --- Hedj .. ee)

Is that right?

[Ruth_10]

I think Gary and Clara are indicating the "g" belongs with the second syllable:

He (as in hee) gee (as in gee whiz): He-gee

[clara]

Ruth, you're right: "g" in the second syllable and pronounced as the "g" in "good". clara

[amideutch]

My pronunciation is simply, Excellent. Ami

[ContainerTed]

After reading all this, I think I now have a case of the HEE-bee GEE-bees.

Ted, who is now hedging his bets - Awwww, Gee, folks!!