"Boron Elgar" <boron_elgar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 6 May 2008 13:33:20 -0400, "Roy Smith" <rdsmith79@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>"Boron Elgar" <boron_elgar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:i321245o1fcgd1tshm5oqdsl2jfsgcmdsb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> On 06 May 2008 13:53:07 GMT, Opus the Penguin
>>> <opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>For all sad words on tongue or pen,
>>>>the saddest are these: "It might have been."
>>>
>>>
>>> It didn't rhyme then, and it doesn't now - at least for those of us in
>>> the NE US.
>>>
>>
>>It does rhyme in SE US and in Texas. What, do NE USers pronounce been
to
>>sound like bean? Well, that's just wrong...
>> ...Roy
>>
>
>
> Pen, not pin
>
> Bin, not bean
OK, I stand mostly corrected (radically genuflecting in your direction).
Real research, online and paper copy dictionaries, shows the prefered
pronunciation (pronounciation? don't start...) is bin, short i. However,
at
least one source, http://www.yourdictionary.com/been,
lists alternate
pronunciations as ben, short e, and for Cdn and Brit, ben, long e.
YRLSH...
...Roy
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