Pronunciation of ‘been’.
As a non-native speaker I often hear the word ‘been’ pronounced as /bn/ instead /bin/ which I expect from the Double Ee’. I have had this situation before.
In the MacMillan dictionary, the phonetic transcritpion is /bin/ for the British entry. My German entry is /bin/ and mine is /bin/. The American entry is /bin/? Nevertheless, when I heard that word pronounced in British English in sentences such as ‘I could have been…’ or ‘I’ve been…’, it sounds to me as /bn/.
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The english pronunciation of Been is old. The Oxford English Dictionary says
The standard form was derives from the latter, and, in unstressed position, develops a weak pronunciation with shortened vowel in early modern English (continued as /bn/ and, in a less reduced form, as U.S. English /bn/).
How are spellings like “binne” and “bin” common in the United States?
Even though “ee” is the standard spelling in present-day English, I don’t think that the pronunciation with // is particularly stigmatized by most speakers although I’m an American English speaker so it might have connotations that I am unaware of in British English.
If the word “been” was pronounced /bn/, even when it is accented for emphasis, is there no exception.
I don’t pronounce “seen” as /sn/, and I can’t think of any other word where I pronounce “een” as /sn/. In some British English dialects, it is pronounced that way, particularly in the East Anglian accents. The past participle of “do”, “done” shows
historical shortening of a different vowel: as far as I know, in standard British and American English, the only pronunciation that exists for this word is /dn/, or in weak contexts possibly /dn/.
In American English, the past participle of “go”, “gone”, also shows shortening, although in American English the quality is variable, and may be either // or //.
Indian tense “tone”, is pronounced with shortened // in English, but often pronounced with long /t/ in American English (so that anyone who knows English can understand it easily) and pronounced with “shine”
as its past participle.
