Please: How do you pronounce Hartge?

booker · Post by **booker** » Feb 25, 2005 1:14 AM

Can someone spell it out phonetically for me?

hart-gee?

hart-je?

hart-ga?

Hert-gee?

Hert-je?

...

Thanks

Duke · Post by **Duke** » Feb 25, 2005 1:20 AM

Heart - geh

My German speaking expert tells me so.

RetiredDoc · Post by **RetiredDoc** » Feb 25, 2005 1:21 AM

Do y'all want the southern, the yankee, or the damn yankee lawyer pronunciation

booker · Post by **booker** » Feb 25, 2005 1:23 AM

[QUOTE="Duke M535Ti"]Heart - geh

My German speaking expert tells me so.[/QUOTE]

Thanks Duke,

That's what I was looking for.

XtannerXm535iX · Post by **XtannerXm535iX** » Feb 25, 2005 6:27 AM

what about dinan

i've always heard dee-nahn

...but i was at the bmw dealer and over heard a parts guy say, dine-in

???

C.R. Krieger · Post by **C.R. Krieger** » Feb 25, 2005 9:52 AM

[QUOTE="RetiredDoc"]Do y'all want the southern, the yankee, or the damn yankee lawyer pronunciation

[/QUOTE]

Hey! The Damn Yankee Lawyer gets compliments on his German when visiting that country!

It's 'Hart-geh'. Your first guess was closest, Duke. I suspect you've been right all along.

So-o-o, anybody want to take a shot at "Fikse" or "Borbet"? (I already know.) %)

Bill in MN · Post by **Bill in MN** » Feb 25, 2005 9:58 AM

Bor-bay?

C.R. Krieger · Post by **C.R. Krieger** » Feb 25, 2005 10:05 AM

[QUOTE="Bill in MN"]Bor-bay?[/QUOTE]

BZZZZT!

Next?

Velocewest · Post by **Velocewest** » Feb 25, 2005 12:49 PM

[QUOTE="C.R. Krieger"]So-o-o, anybody want to take a shot at "Fikse" or "Borbet"? (I already know.) %) [/QUOTE]

Probably somehting bass-Ackward like "Favre", which Brett insists is pronounced "farv" but the rest of the world knows is "faver". C'mon, how do you pronounce "five" -- "firv"?

Al Canuck · Post by **Al Canuck** » Feb 25, 2005 12:54 PM

[QUOTE="Bill in MN"]Bor-bay?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="C.R. Krieger"]BZZZZT!

Next?[/QUOTE]

Well, when I was a Borbet dealer, the manufacture's rep used to call them 'Bor-bay', as did anyone on the phone at the distributor. It sure as hell ain't 'Bor-bet'.

Al

John in VA · Post by **John in VA** » Feb 25, 2005 2:07 PM

Duke's right, or Heart - guh.
We have a local car club member, John Hartge (you might have heard him reporting the news on CBS and other radio networks) that pronounces HIS name "hart ' - jee."

Dine ' - in?
Fihk ' - see?
I've heard more folks pronounce it Bor - bet than Bor - bay, but that doesn't make it right (i.e., Beemer v. Bimmer). Must be a French Canuck thing!!

C.R. Krieger · Post by **C.R. Krieger** » Feb 25, 2005 5:31 PM

[QUOTE="Bill in MN"]Bor-bay?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="C.R. Krieger"]BZZZZT!

Next?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Al Canuck"]Well, when I was a Borbet dealer, the manufacture's rep used to call them 'Bor-bay', as did anyone on the phone at the distributor. It sure as hell ain't 'Bor-bet'.

Al[/QUOTE]

That's what the 'Bor-bet' folks told us in a tech session I attended.

Same for 'Fik-see'. The guy who named the company after himself ... Jim Fikse.

C.R. Krieger · Post by **C.R. Krieger** » Feb 25, 2005 5:41 PM

John in VA wrote:Duke's right, or Heart - guh.
We have a local car club member, John Hartge (you might have heard him reporting the news on CBS and other radio networks) that pronounces HIS name "hart ' - jee."

John! Haven't seen him since O'Fest '99! I would assume he still has his E28 M5?

Dine ' - in?
Fihk ' - see?
I've heard more folks pronounce it Bor - bet than Bor - bay,

All essentially correct. Steve's a Californian and not all that snotty about how you say his name. Long 'i', accented first syllable and a 'schwa' for the 'a' (since I don't know that I can type one). Jim Fikse is just as good about it. Sure wish I could remember who it was with the company that told us (blowing out of the water my impression that it rhymed with 'sorbet') it was 'Bor-bet'.

Cacatfish · Post by **Cacatfish** » Feb 25, 2005 6:11 PM

I always thought it was Dee-nan, but the people at Dinan say Die-nan, so I guess that is what it is.
Hartge= "Harkey" in my book, but that's just cause it's easy!

BMWJustin · Post by **BMWJustin** » Feb 26, 2005 12:39 AM

Ive heard both but Hart-Guh seems to be correct....

ozz535i · Post by **ozz535i** » Feb 26, 2005 1:53 AM

While we're at it...how do you pronounce GETRAG ???

Oz
'87 535i

Al Canuck · Post by **Al Canuck** » Feb 26, 2005 2:59 AM

[QUOTE="Bill in MN"]Bor-bay?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="C.R. Krieger"]BZZZZT!

Next?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Al Canuck"]Well, when I was a Borbet dealer, the manufacture's rep used to call them 'Bor-bay', as did anyone on the phone at the distributor. It sure as hell ain't 'Bor-bet'.

Al[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="C.R. Krieger"]That's what the 'Bor-bet' folks told us in a tech session I attended.

Same for 'Fik-see'. The guy who named the company after himself ... Jim Fikse.[/QUOTE]

Very interesting. I think the difference may be whether you live north, or south of the 49th.

Similar experience with a US hockey player named Guy Hebert. In the US, his name is pronounced 'Guy', as in "hey guy, how's it going", and is last name is He-bert. In Canada, his name is 'Gee' with a hard G, and 'Ee-bear'.

I think Borbet is the same type of deal. They will always be Bor-bay in Canada.

Al

Al Canuck · Post by **Al Canuck** » Feb 26, 2005 3:01 AM

[QUOTE="ozz535i"]While we're at it...how do you pronounce GETRAG ???

Oz
'87 535i[/QUOTE]

Ge-trawg

Cacatfish · Post by **Cacatfish** » Feb 26, 2005 3:21 AM

Get-Rag

You're welcome!

Mike in Louisville · Post by **Mike in Louisville** » Feb 26, 2005 11:52 AM

How about BIMMER????

It's amazing how many people think my car is a motorcycle!

What about Alpina? Al-peen-a or Al-pine-a?

Craig -535i- Seattle · Post by **Craig -535i- Seattle** » Feb 26, 2005 1:43 PM

Bilstein is bil-stine. Most people say bil-steen though.

shifty · Post by **shifty** » Feb 26, 2005 3:02 PM

I say:

Hart-guh

Dih-nan

Geh-trag

Al-pee-nuh

Fik-suh

Bor-bay

Bil-shteen

and I don't care if it's right or not. That's how I'm gonna say it!

Because I say things the way I want to say them, I don't mind people mis-pronouncing my last name.

C.R. Krieger · Post by **C.R. Krieger** » Feb 28, 2005 2:53 PM

[QUOTE="Craig -535i- Seattle"]Bilstein is bil-stine. Most people say bil-steen though. [/QUOTE]

German pronunciation rules, unlike English, are regular. 'ei' is pronounced as a long 'i'. 'ie' (as in my name) is pronounced as a long 'e'. This is always true unless it is a 'foreign (non-German) word. In addition, the 'st' in German is pronounced as if it has an 'h' in the middle of it, thus: 'sht'.

So, it's 'Bil-schtine'. And I am 'Kree-gur'.

C.R. Krieger · Post by **C.R. Krieger** » Feb 28, 2005 2:55 PM

[QUOTE="Cacatfish"]I always thought it was Dee-nan, but the people at Dinan say Die-nan, so I guess that is what it is.[/QUOTE]

That's how Steve and his wife pronounce it ...

Post by **Jeremy** » Mar 02, 2005 5:36 PM

[QUOTE="Shifty"]Because I say things the way I want to say them, I don't mind people mis-pronouncing my last name.

[/QUOTE]

I still laugh about a message you left on my voice mail before 5erFest 03, Mr. Coo-vee-yon! The way you said it was just hilarious to me, you probably put special emphasis on it due to my damn Yankee speaking butchering it the first time I called you, lol. I'll never forget how to say it Cajun-correctly, though.

Jeremy

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Please: How do you pronounce Hartge?