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Help[Opinions] Nadine
What do you think of this name?
What kind of image do you get from it?
How do you pronounce it?
“Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist – while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!”
-Lori Greiner
What kind of image do you get from it?
How do you pronounce it?
“Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist – while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!”
-Lori Greiner
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Nadine is one of my absolute favorite names! I especially like it as a middle name. It’s a very underrated name. Also, I pronounce it as, “Nay-deen”.
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A friend from high school is due very soon, and I've seen some updates on Facebook. A lot of to-be parents keep the name they picked out quiet (honestly I'd probably do the same), but she actually already posted that she and her husband chose Nadine for their little girl. I was pleasantly surprised to see Nadine, since it's genuinely different from what I usually encounter with little kids and birth announcements. (Just checked, and Nadine isn't even in the Top 1000.)
My main association with the name is the character on Twin Peaks, who is... very different. Like a superhero who never actually became a superhero because she got stuck in her small, eastern Washington town in a marriage built on guilt. Basically, she's a one-eyed housewife (lost her eye in a shooting accident) prone to obsessive behaviors, who is also freakishly strong.
I've always liked the name, personally. I actually prefer it to Nadia, which is much more common (though itself not terribly common).
My main association with the name is the character on Twin Peaks, who is... very different. Like a superhero who never actually became a superhero because she got stuck in her small, eastern Washington town in a marriage built on guilt. Basically, she's a one-eyed housewife (lost her eye in a shooting accident) prone to obsessive behaviors, who is also freakishly strong.
I've always liked the name, personally. I actually prefer it to Nadia, which is much more common (though itself not terribly common).
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Nadine Gordimer, a distinguished South African novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, apparently pronounced her name as a spondee (equal stress on both syllables): nay-deen. I respected her as a political activist as well as an author, but as names go, I mostly don't enjoy spondees. I prefer Nadia, the name chosen professionally by South African ballet dancer Nadia Nerina, whose birth name was Nadine.
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My main association is Nadine from Twin Peaks. Soooo my image is a woman with an eye patch and superhuman strength? nay-DEEN is how it's pronounced in the show, and what I default to know - I pronounced it na-DEEN before.
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I prn it nay-deen. Kind of a flat tone. I really dislike the name. Makes me think of slime or lumpy dinosaurs. Don't ask me why as I have absolutely no clue.
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I used to really dislike this name, but recently I’ve been slowly liking it more and more and now it’s one of my favorites.
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It's kinda whiny and unnatractive to me. It's like Janet, I imagine a nosy coworker who's always in everyone's business.
I pronounce it nay-DEEN
I pronounce it nay-DEEN
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