I met a lady with this name recently and it's really grown on me. However, if I look at it as a strange form of 'Sandra' I like it a lot less!

Do you like it? You'd pronounce it Son-DREEN.

Not to my taste, although there is nothing wrong with it.

NMS and when I saw in recent topics I thought it was Sardine

I much prefer Alexandrine

As an Australian with no knowledge of foreign pronunciation, I looked at it and thought it was sand-reen, which sounds quite awful.
It's much nicer the way you say it though.

I'd pronounce it San-dreen.

I've heard it before, from a movie or TV.

It's not bad, but I wouldn't use it.

I don't think it works with an Australian accent, even if you pronounce the "an" as "on".

NMS.

But them I'm pronouncing it with my mixed Kiwi-slightly-Aussie-overtone accent, so most things sound terrible when I say it out loud !!

Try it with an X.

Xandreen.

+1

It's ok, but I prefer the similar sounding 'Sabine'.

Exactly what I was going to say.

Sardine.

+1

I could have written that exactly.

Was it from a Joanne Harris book?

It's one of those names I've always hated. Don't know why. To me it is plain horrible (sorry if I offend any Sandrines out there).

Same, AstroBoy. I know I have heard it somewhere. I can even hear the voice in my head.....it's going to annoy me now.

I don't really like it.

Its a very old name, very aristocratic. It sounds lovely when pronounced with a french accent, I quite like it actually!

http://www.forvo.com/word/sandrine_fran%C3%A7ois/
(Click on the blue arrow)

I first read it as sardine. I don't like it but I'd pronounce it San-drine.

I found one...it was in the DaVinci Code, must have been where I read it.

Sister Sandrine Bieil


I knew it was going to bug me too

I have never seen or read Da Vinci Code but that was what Google gave me too.

I know where I have heard it - Dom's wife in Rush on Channel 10. The voice in my head had a bit of an ocker accent so that would explain it. At least I will be able to sleep now.

I don't like it at all.

That's the one.

Not my cup of tea either

It reminds me of the Friends episode where Ross and Rachel are trying to think of names for their baby.

Rachel: Okay! I was thinking if it's a girl, how about Sandrine? It's French.

Ross: Huh. That's a really pretty name for-for an industrial solvent.

Rachel: Okay fine, what do you have?

Ross: Well, OK, it's for a boy. Well, I know it's a little out there, but Darwin.

Rachel: Wow, oh my God, our child will be beaten to death in the schoolyard.

Phoebe: Yeah, by Sandrine.

Phoebe cracks me up

NMS

Wow, okay, thumbs down for Sandrine! I liked that sound file though.



I didn't even think of that.

Really like Sandrine. Makes me think firstly of the French tennis player Sandrine Testud who was fun to watch then from the credits of French movies.

I like the French pronunciation but English speakers tend to go with the English rendition and I think that's what you would mostly get. I still like it. It just has French chic for me either way.

Exactly this!

Thanks tintan for the laugh with Phoebe/Friends

I really dislike it, for some reason any name ending in 'drine' makes me think of drains.

love how it is pronounced, but spelling made me think of sardines!! sorry, but it is the truth & some people might mis prounonce!!

I know a girl called Sandrine from Mauritius. When she said her name it was gorgeous, when anyone Australian said it (including myself) it sounded pretty bad (Sand-reen). Sabine is a nice alternative.

I also initially read it as "sardine"

Are you French? Having not read all replies, as far as I am aware Sandrine is a French name. I worked with a French woman once. Lovely name given the pronounciation with French accent, which I think makes it sounds nice.

No, it just will get poorly used in Okker Aussie.

I heard someone pronouce Chanel as CHEN-NEIL.

I DIED I really did

I like it as name for a French speaking person (pron. kind of like Zohnd-rheen). But in an Aussie accent? :shudders: