And Your Name Is…?

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My boss, Zac, asked me how to pronounce my name.

“Well,” I told him. “The correct way would be Naedin but only malays call me that. Normal people call me Nardin and accented people call me Nerdin.”

“Correct is Naedin,” he said.

“Yeah,” I said.

Naedin,” he said again.

“Uh, yeah,” I said again. “Why?”

“Chai and I were arguing the other day over this,” he informed me with a smile. (Chai, by the way, is my other boss.)

“Yeah. He insists that Nardin is correct.” I said.

“It’s not. It’s Naedin.”

“Yeah.”

“That Chai insists he’s right when it’s wrong. It’s Naedin.”

I started to laugh.

My two bosses are arguing over the pronunciation of my name…

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Daren commented

December 8, 2005 @ 5:47

interesting.. haha. how’s the “r” fit in?? =p


Um, the “r” has an “arr” sound to it. So it’ll be like “Narrdin” instead of my “Nadine” 🙂

Andrea commented

December 8, 2005 @ 13:19

woops.. i always thought it was

Na – dine

O_O! Naedin.

-repeats to self-

your previous post..YESYESYES im dying too..why did november fly by so fast!!! arghhh!! all the assignments due..

angie commented

December 8, 2005 @ 18:33

actually the name, Nadine is a french word thus to be pronounced as Naedin. I guess perhaps people who didn’t recogize that it is french-originated pronounced Nardin instead.


Yes! It’s French! But everyone thinks it’s malay or *gasp* indian!

Anne commented

December 8, 2005 @ 22:57

lol That’s funny! I thought it was pronounced Nay-deen. lol Naedin isn’t much different, I guess.

Valerie commented

December 8, 2005 @ 23:53

I always thought it was Nar-din. Oops. ^^;

Brenda commented

December 9, 2005 @ 0:28

Naedin sounds more unique. Classy, even. 🙂

I have people arguing over my name at times too. Some say it’s “Bren-DAH”, Some say it’s “Bren-DER”. Others say is “Brain-der”.

The correct pronounciation is “Bren-DER”. 😛

patty commented

December 9, 2005 @ 9:22

haha, that’s funny!

Marz commented

December 10, 2005 @ 0:31

I kinda always (?!) knew that it was NAY-DEEN, or Naedin, like you said. As I was going through the comments, I just realized how many other possibilities of other pronounciations (wrong or right) there could have been.

boss commented

December 10, 2005 @ 1:09

Haha…so we’ve been pronouncing your name wrongly all this time. Ah but I guess “Nad” is still fine ya? 😉

Just for fun, ask your boss to try pronouncing my name. HAHAHA…

yami commented

December 10, 2005 @ 3:35

opps, so i have been hmm calling you wrongly.. i always thought it was na-dine 🙁


It’s okay! Everyone calls me that anyway so it’s more like my name than calling me Nay/Nae-dine 🙂

Joyceline commented

December 10, 2005 @ 7:05

‘Nadine’ isn’t so bad.

What about my name — Joyceline… haha.

Nobody pronounces it right on the first try…

dani commented

December 10, 2005 @ 8:15

Nadine! Hello! 🙂

Oh okay so Nadine isn’t REALLY your name. But that’s neat! Close enough, huh?

Chau commented

December 10, 2005 @ 9:52

Wow… Hehehe, yeah, I know how to pronounce your name correctly then.

Silver commented

December 13, 2005 @ 1:33

Hee. Cute comes to mind at once after reading this entry.
Ah pronounciations are crazy…I have different variations of my name too. And the not right variation ones tend to annoy me when people use it. xP

dene commented

December 13, 2005 @ 11:37

i had my boss call me jean for two weeks until he figured out it was a d instead of a j. too funny.

Jasmin commented

December 13, 2005 @ 19:33

I used to think it was Nair-deen because of “Nad” (rhymes with add) but later learned from an audiobook (hah!) that it was Nay-deen, which definitely sounds better.

tIcKLe`Me commented

December 16, 2005 @ 23:28

i think if i were to meet you and then greet you, it’d be “nae+din” too. 😀

vanessa commented

December 19, 2005 @ 2:04

awww thats so cuteee lolll hah i cant believe they were arguing over ur name lol

Dan commented

December 19, 2005 @ 10:22

My name’s not to controversial, but I have a friend, C.W., whose name is not “see double u”, but rather, “see-dubya.” O_o

Dayna commented

December 19, 2005 @ 12:19

That was pretty hilarious. My lecturer and tutors always pronounce my name wrong, it’s ‘yin’ not ‘ying’, they will always ask me if I’ve an english name (eg. Dayna) but I told them I don’t have, and they will like ‘I’m going to have a hard time remembering her name’. =P

james commented

December 24, 2005 @ 14:27

pseudo accented singaporeans are the worst when it comes to pronouncing names. they make a fool of themselves all the time.

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