How would you pronounce the name “Tage”?

[SweedeyTodd]

Just out of curiosity; how would you pronounce the name “Tage”?

It’s an older Swedish name. We’re thinking about it for Elise’s and Viola’s little brother, but we’re not UK based so wouldn’t know how it would be pronounced in English speaking countries.

I didn’t know this, must look into it immediately 😅

I thought Tag Heuer!

I'd Google it if I saw it on a register and put a phonetic spelling beside it.

I would say people are likely to get it wrong, but it’s not a difficult sound to make in English once it’s explained.

So - it could travel, albeit in English speaking countries they’re likely to get it wrong!

TBH even a lot of the ‘English’ names popular in Sweden are pronounced differently so they may find that anyway.

It doesn’t have any unique Scandinavian sounds, so shouldn’t be difficult for people in other countries to pronounce. Not like Kjetil or Børre, for example. I think it is a nice name, and not so common these days.

With a hard g so rhymes with plague

Tarjay

All posts have been helpful so far of course, but I really appreciate the point you’re making. Thank you!

You seem really nice @SweedeyTodd , and your DDs names are lovely. Do you say them as El-ees and Vee-ola?

It's pronounced Ta geh in Scandinavia, but everyone with pronounce it Tage to rhyme with page, in an English speaking country.

Sage . Like the herb

Tadge.

It's the plural of Tag (in German)

I'd say TAH-ge

Tiger

TAH-ge like the German word

Ooh, I really like it. I would have said Tage to rhyme with Page which I'm not very keen but Tah-geh I do think is a great name and goes well with your daughters' names.

I'd go for it. I don't think it matters if people have to ask how to say it. They won't need telling over and over again as it's not a difficult name at all, just unfamiliar.

I teach two Maias - one is My-uh and one is May-a. I teach a Leela and two Lylas. One of the Lylas says it the same as Leela and the other one says Lye-la. You just ask and learn and then you know.

Depends on whether you mind the correct context of grammar and enunciation for our location?!

Appreciating this is not a name from English origins, but I assume is being asked about in the context of this dialect.

placing an e on the end of a word forces the enunciation of the vowel to it’s literal self.

so a name ending e like this, means the a should be pronounced as an ‘ay’. And the e becomes a silent end, having done its job changing the a.

so correctly its like ‘page’ in the English context.

I read it as Tay-g to rhyme with plague, which is the same sound as Taig, a slur for Catholics here in NI. So that wouldn't be a great name!

The actual pronunciation is easy though, so once people are told they should be able to handle it.

Fage yoghurt is currently spending a fortune on advertising to make Fage = Fi-yuh in the eyes of the British public, so my first thought would be Ti-yuh.

But if you'd asked me last month I'd have said confidently, Tayge to rhyme with Fayge as in the yoghurt.

Like Taj in Taj Mahal?

Me too!

Tay-g

But as a teacher or someone who was reading it out loud from a list I'd say "Is that correct? How do you pronounce it?" Then I'd write my phonetic pronunciation down and know how to do it next time.

Native English speakers with a limited ethnic pool of people in their experience lose their shit about this. IMAGINE the HORROR of having to sound out your name or spell it! Good LORD! Too, too dreadful. This will curse the child for life. 😱 This will always, 100% apply to Celtic names.

Someone will mention how sad it is that there won't be a keyring or mug with the name. Just heartbreaking.

I can speak Swedish but when I saw it in the title I rhymed it with Page.
When I read it is a Swedish name I knew how to pronounce it but if you're living in the UK no one will pronounce it Tahg-ge unless you tell them that's how it's pronounced and even then they may have trouble pronouncing it correctly

Tahg-eh

I would read it to rhyme with page. But mostly you hear a name before you see it written down, so you would only have to correct people in some situations.