Journalist calls New Zealand PM to ask her name’s pronunciation
Jacinda Ardern, a incoming premier, will be New Zealand’s youngest personality in some-more than 150 years. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
An Australian publisher unwittingly directly contacted New Zealand’s primary apportion to discern how to rightly pronounce her name, according to Associated Press.
According to The New Zealand Herald, Tiger Webb of Australia’s ABC Radio called a New Zealand Parliament on Friday to find out how Jacinda Ardern, who takes over as primary apportion this entrance week, pronounces her surname.
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Webb was eliminated to a Labour Party’s offices, and nothing other than Ardern herself answered a phone. She told Webb that her final name is conspicuous “AH-durn”.
“It was funny. we was in a assembly and my table phone started to ring and it doesn’t ring most so we went over and we saw it was an general series and we only picked up,” Ardern told a Herald.
The brief phone review sparked some sharp-witted Twitter chaff after an tender Webb tweeted about a incident.
Former New Zealand primary apportion Helen Clark tweeted, “That’s New Zealand!!”
That’s New Zealand!!
— Helen Clark (@HelenClarkNZ) October 20, 2017
Ardern, 37, will be New Zealand’s youngest personality in some-more than 150 years, and hopes to take a nation on a some-more magnanimous trail following 9 years of order by a conservatives.
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