Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!stu16 From: stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Re: Nutsy Eng. Lang. Message-ID: <778@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 16:33:56 EST Article-I.D.: whuxl.778 Posted: Mon Nov 4 16:33:56 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 09:44:39 EST References: <749@whuxl.UUCP> <383@graffiti.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 26 > > 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 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** P.S. According to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, been is pronounced bin. Look it up. -- whuxl!stu16 (mamawitch)