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Posted: 9/25/2004 7:42:11 PM EDT

How do you pronounce it, and does the other pronunciation irritate you?
Poll coming.

Posted: 9/25/2004 7:44:58 PM EDT

[#1]

Car-bean.

Doesn't bother me.

Posted: 9/25/2004 7:45:25 PM EDT

[#2]

car-bine

Posted: 9/25/2004 7:47:40 PM EDT

[#3]

Car_bean. If you don't like that you'll probably hate the way I say pecan.

Posted: 9/25/2004 7:48:39 PM EDT

[#4]

do you pronounce dine as dean?
Combine as combean?
Mine as mean?

Posted: 9/25/2004 7:50:59 PM EDT

[#5]

tah-mater

Posted: 9/25/2004 7:51:47 PM EDT

[#6]

Kar-byn

And NO, I don't pick nits over pronunciation....

Posted: 9/25/2004 7:52:12 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
do you pronounce dine as dean?
Combine as combean?
Mine as mean?

What about "machine" or "pristine"?

I pronounce it like car-by-n. I don't care how other people pronounce it though.

Posted: 9/25/2004 7:58:05 PM EDT

[#8]

"car" as in automobile
"bine" as in binery. Long "I"

Posted: 9/25/2004 7:59:48 PM EDT

[#9]

It's car-bine, with the 'i' having a long vowel sound.

Posted: 9/25/2004 8:08:59 PM EDT

[#10]

It's in the dictionary with both pronunciations ... why would anybody be bothered by either?

Christ, talk about splitting hairs.

Posted: 9/25/2004 8:10:40 PM EDT

[#11]

Both

carbine

car·bine [ kaar been, kaar bin ] (plural car·bines)

noun

short rifle: a lightweight rifle with a short barrel

[Early 17th century. From French carabine , from carabin “mounted musketeer,” of unknown origin.]

encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/carbine.html

Posted: 9/25/2004 8:16:12 PM EDT

[#12]

bean.

Posted: 9/25/2004 8:25:58 PM EDT

[#13]

Car-frijoles. Kidding. I'm with the pack and it's car-bean.

Posted: 9/25/2004 8:30:30 PM EDT

[#14]

I usually go with the "bean", but it sounds a bit gay pronounced that way.

Posted: 9/25/2004 8:30:52 PM EDT

[#15]

you all suck! you all know it's pronounced....
BUCKMASTER!!!

Posted: 9/25/2004 8:46:26 PM EDT

[#16]

Carbeen. I don't care how anybody else pronounces it. It does bother me when people call a magazine a clip. I don't know why, but it does.

I pronounce Ballester Molina as Balerina Molester

Posted: 9/25/2004 8:51:36 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I pronounce Ballester Molina as Balerina Molester

Posted: 9/25/2004 8:55:21 PM EDT

[#18]

bean

Posted: 9/25/2004 9:00:08 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Carbeen. I don't care how anybody else pronounces it. It does bother me when people call a magazine a clip. I don't know why, but it does.

Because a magazine is not a clip, it's not a mispronounciation, it's just plain wrong.

As far as Carbine, I use both pronounciations. I don't know why except that I've never really heard anyone say it. I usually only hear it in my head and along the way I've found myself using both interchangeable.

Posted: 9/25/2004 9:00:45 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
do you pronounce dine as dean?
Combine as combean?
Mine as mean?

So tell me, Grasshopper, how do you pronounce "David Carradine"?

Posted: 9/25/2004 9:04:08 PM EDT

[#21]

bean

- BG

Posted: 9/25/2004 9:06:29 PM EDT

[#22]

I just call it the short one????

Posted: 9/25/2004 9:26:02 PM EDT

[#23]

Had to start another argument eh?

Civil War and Evolution wasn't enough eh?

Bean. And it don't really matter to me.

Posted: 9/25/2004 9:39:12 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
do you pronounce dine as dean?
Combine as combean?
Mine as mean?

marine
magazine
nicotine
morphine
caffeine
gasoline
ravine
figurine
kerosine
ketamine
nectarine
chlorine
routine
sardine
tambourine
tangerine
quarantine
Byzantine
creatine

Want some more?

Posted: 9/25/2004 9:55:12 PM EDT

[#25]

Car- bine like most literate people

Posted: 9/25/2004 9:58:46 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Quoted:
do you pronounce dine as dean?
Combine as combean?
Mine as mean?

marine
magazine
nicotine
morphine
caffeine
gasoline
ravine
figurine
kerosine
ketamine
nectarine
chlorine
routine
sardine
tambourine
tangerine
quarantine
Byzantine
creatine

Want some more?

Your just mean

Posted: 9/25/2004 10:05:58 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Car- bine like most literate people

GM

Posted: 9/25/2004 10:07:19 PM EDT

[#28]

It's Car - bean you goof balls.

Posted: 9/25/2004 10:18:59 PM EDT

[#29]

+1 for car-bine

Posted: 9/25/2004 10:42:25 PM EDT

[#30]

You guys can go here and click the audio link to hear it pronounced CORRECTLY: www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=carbine

Posted: 9/25/2004 10:45:26 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Carbeen. I don't care how anybody else pronounces it. It does bother me when people call a magazine a clip. I don't know why, but it does.

I pronounce Ballester Molina as Balerina Molester

Everything he said, including the last part --- I just didn't dyslexically realize it until it was posted here...!

BTW, wasn't there a MOVIE called Carbine Williams, with Jimmy Stewart?
Didn't he pronounce it 'CAR-BYNE' in the movie?

Posted: 9/25/2004 10:45:36 PM EDT

[#32]

Usually, I say Штуцер.

Posted: 9/25/2004 10:48:45 PM EDT

[#33]

BLAM-BLAM-BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMB! (as I run around with my finger pointed....

)

Karabiner

MT

Posted: 9/26/2004 10:40:42 AM EDT

[#34]

BTW, wasn't there a MOVIE called Carbine Williams, with Jimmy Stewart?
Didn't he pronounce it 'CAR-BYNE' in the movie?

I don't remember how he pronounced it in the movie, but Hollywood isn't exactly known for getting things right. The guy's name was Marsh Williams. "Carbine" was a nickname he got because in developed the M-1 Carbine. The word "carbine" considerably predates him and his rifle.

Main Entry: car·bine
Pronunciation: 'kär-"bEn, -"bIn
Function: noun
Etymology: French carabine, from Middle French carabin carabineer
1 : a short-barreled lightweight firearm orig. used by cavalry
2 : a light short-barreled repeating rifle that is used as a supplementary military arm or for hunting in dense brush

Posted: 9/26/2004 10:44:40 AM EDT

[#35]

I say Carbine.

Posted: 9/26/2004 10:45:46 AM EDT

[#36]

Car_bean, and no it does not bother me.

Posted: 9/26/2004 11:04:56 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Car- bine like most literate people

GM

+1

Posted: 9/26/2004 11:16:08 AM EDT

[#38]

Car-bine when I with my red neck beer drinking buddies.

Car-bean when I with the elite aristocratic socialites.

Posted: 9/26/2004 11:44:19 AM EDT

[#39]

Well, seeing how as the name comes from the French Carabineer, which is pronounced car-ah-bin-eer, Carbine should be pronounced car-bine.

Posted: 9/26/2004 12:20:29 PM EDT

[#40]

Enough

Bough

Rough

Though

Through

Cough

QuantumPion is right. The origin of the word is French. The proper (English) pronunciation should be based on its French origin. but we're AMERICANS, dammit, and we pronounce it OUR WAY - Car-BEAN.

Here's Merriam-Webster's take on it, with sound effects

Posted: 9/26/2004 12:26:40 PM EDT

[#41]

Car-Bean like the Duostock, you guys can say it however,

What about Caramel? Is it CAR-MEL or CARA-MEL?

Caramel of course.

Posted: 9/26/2004 12:32:59 PM EDT

[#42]

Depends on what mood I am in. I pronounce things differently sometimes just to piss people off.

Posted: 9/26/2004 12:38:09 PM EDT

[#43]

Carbine="Lil' rifle"....

Posted: 9/26/2004 12:44:44 PM EDT

[#44]

bine

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