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From: stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Nutsy Eng. Lang.
Message-ID: <777@whuxl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 16:28:38 EST
Article-I.D.: whuxl.777
Posted: Mon Nov  4 16:28:38 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"?
> -- 
> Name: Peter da Silva
> Graphic: `-_-'
> UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter
> IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter

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  Only in England! Here in the states it's pronounced
bin - americanese. You could have said the same about
again - to rhyme with rain in the UK, but not here.
    ONLY IN AMERICA (apologies to H. Golden)

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whuxl!stu16
(mamawitch)