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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
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 22:06:01 1985
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> 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"?
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