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In response to "do schools even teach the difference between then and than anymore? -- (link)" by zork

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

Posted by MojaveMeg (aka Mojave) May 14 '12, 12:42

rhyming been with teen, etc.,

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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

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