ben thinking

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/19/2009 09:41 AM, Randy Alexander wrote:

> From a Baltimore Sun article:
>
>_War on Fox: Is this best use of White House talent?_
>
>'I have ben thinking all day and much of the night about Week 2 of the
>White House attack on Fox News Sunday. You can read my Sunday post on
>it here under the headline "Emanuel, Axelrod offer more bad media
>criticism."'
>
>(At least until it gets fixed.)
>
>http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2009/10/white_house_fox_news_attack_em.html
>
>Pronunciation "been" is usually given with a schwa or "short i" in
>dictionaries.  My impression is that the schwa form is allegro speech
>(taking the idea that schwa is not accented in American English), and
>that the short i version is in the minority,

Then once again I'm in the pretentious minority.

Joel

>with the majority
>pronunciation (what might be considered more standard) is with a
>"short e" /bEn/.  It would be silly to assume that this typo was
>caused by sound-spelling, but it caught my attention and stirred an
>old pet peeve.
>
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