Reporter calls New Zealand leader to pronounce last name

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Reporter calls New Zealand leader to pronounce last name
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Saturday, October 21, 2017 02:50 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, October 21, 2017 02:55 PM EDT
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — When an Australian journalist wanted to find out how to correctly pronounce the name of New Zealand’s incoming prime minister, he — unwittingly — went straight to the top.
According to The New Zealand Herald, Tiger Webb of Australia’s ABC Radio called the New Zealand Parliament on Friday to find out how Jacinda Ardern, who takes over as prime minister this coming week, pronounces her surname.
Webb was transferred to the Labour Party’s offices, and none other than Ardern herself answered the phone. She told Webb that her last name is pronounced “AH-durn.”
“It was funny. I was in a meeting and my desk phone started to ring and it doesn’t ring much so I went over and I saw it was an international number and I just picked up,” Ardern told the Herald.
The brief phone conversation sparked some lively Twitter banter after an impressed Webb tweeted about the incident.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark tweeted, “That’s New Zealand!!”
Ardern, 37, will be New Zealand’s youngest leader in more than 150 years, and hopes to take the country on a more liberal path following nine years of rule by the conservatives.
In this Oct. 19, 2017 file photo, New Zealand Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern addresses a press conference at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand. When an Australian journalist wanted to find out how to correctly pronounce the name of Ardern, New Zealand’s incoming prime minister, he unwittingly went straight to the top. According to the New Zealand Herald, Tiger Webb of Australia’s ABC Radio called the New Zealand Parliament on Friday, Oct. 20, to find out how Jacinda Ardern pronounces her surname. Webb was transferred to the Labour Party’s offices, and none other than Ardern herself answered the phone. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

Jacinda Ardern confirms to curious Australian journalist her last name is said 'Ah-durn' - NZ Herald
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wheres ripley when you need her? :shock:

 

[Curious Cdn]

Lots of people have trouble pronouncing my name and it's Scottish!

 

[Blackleaf]

Not a lot of people had trouble prounouncing the name of New Zealand's other recent PMs - Shipley, Clark, Key and English.

 

[tay]

New Zealand’s new prime minister calls capitalism a ‘blatant failure’


New Zealand

 

[Blackleaf]

New Zealand’s new prime minister calls capitalism a ‘blatant failure’


New Zealand

So what's she going to do? Turn the country socialist, a system which has worked wonders for the Venezuelans and others?

 

[captain morgan]

She's going to tax the sh*t out of them so they are all on the exact same level of poverty and destitution.

That will be the fairest way to go

 

[Blackleaf]

She's going to tax the sh*t out of them so they are all on the exact same level of poverty and destitution.

That will be the fairest way to go

That's what Corbyn's planning on doing when he doesn't get to power.

With the likes of Ardern and Corbyn (who likes eating cold baked beans straight from the tin), it's not trying to make everyone wealthy. It's trying to make everyone poor.

 

[captain morgan]

But at least it's totally equal

 

[Blackleaf]

But at least it's totally equal

Apart from the champagne socialists in the government.