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do schools even teach the difference between then and than anymore? -- (link)

Posted by zork May 14 '12, 12:36

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wound used to be pronounced like sound -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 12:59 2
- it still is - zork May 14, 13:02
- And what about route? :) -- nm - MojaveMeg May 14, 13:00
I once had a debate with a 3rd grade teacher over been and bin. He maintained they were both pronounce the same. I'll stick with - MojaveMeg May 14, 12:42 21
- I pronouce them the same. :-) -- nm - Krusty May 14, 12:56 1
  - *pronounce* -- nm - Krusty May 14, 12:56
- been should definitely be a homonyn of bean -- nm - zork May 14, 12:48
- rhyming "been" with "teen"? rhyme "been" with "Ben". -- nm - TFox May 14, 12:47
- That's just accents, though. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 12:46 4
  - I always took it for laziness - zork May 14, 12:51 3
    - not if you've only heard it pronounced one way. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 12:55 1
      - This. No one here says been like it rhymes with teen. -- nm - Krusty May 14, 12:57
    - I wouldn't call it that - if you take a linguistics course, they talk about why things shift, and it's many many reasons - Reagen May 14, 12:54
- Was that over here? Rhyming "been" with "teen" strikes me as particularly British. -- nm - Ender May 14, 12:44 9
  - i hear both here. i would say rhymes-with-teen is more proper, but rhymes-with-tin is probably common-usage. -- nm - Andie May 14, 12:49 3
    - more - i think we would use the 'bean' version with 'i have been'... and we use the 'bin' version with 'i've bin...'. -- nm - Andie May 14, 12:51 1
      - heh. Exactly. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 12:55
    - It sort of depends on where it is in the sentence. In the middle : "bin". At the end: "bean". -- nm - Reagen May 14, 12:50
  - I'm sure it is. I just wasn't aware of the U.S. variant before daughter hit 3rd grade :) -- nm - MojaveMeg May 14, 12:45 4
    - oooHHHHhhhhh.... I visualized you having the debate *as* a third grader. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:46 3
      - Same here. -- nm - Ender May 14, 12:48 2
        
        Heh, sorry. No, he'd marked her down for using the British variant and I challenged him on it...lost :( -- nm - MojaveMeg May 14, 12:53 1
        
        Ahh...I'm with you then. It's how she heard the word pronounced by you and it's not wrong. - Krusty May 14, 13:00
- Wait, they are not? -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:44
- Yeah, I have to side with the teacher in this case. ;) -- nm - Don Homer May 14, 12:43
Dude. - Starving Kids in Africa May 14, 12:38 1
- I meant to trip like that, Mr. Carson -- nm - Brooke Shields May 14, 12:39

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