Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Nutsy Eng. Lang. Message-ID: <383@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 22:06:01 EST Article-I.D.: graffiti.383 Posted: Fri Nov 1 22:06:01 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 04:44:54 EST References: <749@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 16 > Then there's our old friend been > Which looks like seen but said like win. Only if you don't know how to pronounce it. I don't know about the American language, but in English "bean" and "been" are pronounced identically. As can be seen from the following verse fragment: "Pussycat pussycat where have you been?" " ..to London to visit the Queen." Or is that pronounced "Quinn"? -- Name: Peter da Silva Graphic: `-_-' UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter