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In response to "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 " by MojaveMeg

Was that over here? Rhyming "been" with "teen" strikes me as particularly British. -- nm

Posted by Ender (aka Ender) May 14 '12, 12:44

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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

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