I understand many Americans and purists insist on saying "car-been", because of the word's French etymology and pronunciation (it's funny that Americans aren't so insistent on sticking to a word's French origins when it comes to words like "colour", "honour", and "centre", though...).
But I've always thought it was "car-byne". I think Americans like to think this is distinctly a British phenomenon, but I'm currently watching a Halo tutorial series where the American creator of the videos consistently says "car-byne".
Many dictionaries list both pronunciations. But I think American references tend to say "car-been" (e.g. dictionary.com gives an audio sample pronouncing it "car-been", and that is an American website), and British references tend to say "car-byne" (e.g. Google UK gives an audio sample pronouncing it "car-byne"). But like I say, some Americans clearly say "car-byne" as well.
Where do you fall on this matter, Jow Forums? I'll continue to say "car-byne" because I think it sounds better. But if you prefer "car-been", then go ahead, you do you.
>But I've always thought it was "car-byne". I think Americans like to think this is distinctly a British phenomenon I live in the south and Ive only heard car-bean a handful of times. It's almost all car-byne.
Jason Cox
Ahr-doog-knee
Luis Garcia
I usually say car-bean since that's how I've always said it, same as saying Guh-Rand even though the correct pronunciation is Gayr-und. Also, the Brits are notorious for mispronouncing French words i.e. Fil-let Mig-nun
Gavin Long
Both. M1 car-byne vs M4 car-bean. Sometimes it varies within the same conversation
Grayson Nguyen
Its arr-down, you fucking retard
Nicholas Garcia
Ka-ra-bi-ner
Christopher Russell
kara-bina
Aiden Foster
I'm from the south west and have said Car Byne my entire life and haven't heard it been pronounced otherwise. Wtf are you on about op
Logan Wood
>MUH FRENCH, MUH FRENCH! If you really cared about the authenticity of French words then you would write "centre" not "center", "colour" not "color", "metre" not "meter", "labour" not "labor", etc.
Colton Myers
i say car-bine because the first time i heard the word spoken was in No One Lives Forever and everyone had an english accent.
Asher Parker
car bean uhh loo mih num receiver.
Aaron James
It's carbeen. We should have changed the spelling to reflect the correct pronunciation like we did with color and center. In fact we really didn't go far enough with that at the time.
>inb4 a dozen lindybeiges come out of the woodwork to defend british idiosyncrasies as secretly genious guise
Isaiah Ramirez
>pronouncing it correctly means you have to keep the retarded, nonsensical frog spelling too
Colton Carter
Carbiné Car-bin-ay
David Martin
Underrated
Sebastian Jones
*couleur *mètre *labeur You disgusting albionoid
Jonathan Torres
I like to say “car-byne” even though the correct pronunciation is “car-bean”
Sebastian Adams
It was taught to me as car-bye-n. I think there was only one asshole in the unit who called it a car-bean, just to be a special snowflake.
>WE AMERICANS CARE SO MUCH ABOUT AUTHENTIC FRENCH PRONUNCIATION, THAT'S WHY WE SAY "CARBINE" IN A COMPLETELY RETARDED WAY! Sure you do - that's why you pronounce Des Moines correctly isn't it? Oh wait, the proper French pronunciation is along the lines of "deh mwan", while Ameritards say "deh moyne". And that's why yanks pronounce "St Louis" in the French way too, right? Oh wait, wrong again - the proper French pronunciation is something like "san lwee", while yanktards say "saynt loo-is".
If Americans want to pronounce carbine as "carbeen" then that's fine. I will keep saying "carbyne", but you do whatever you want. Just don't pretend that you're some sort of purist for French pronunciation. You're not.
Nogunz vidya fags call it carbyne Hasgunz say carbeen It's an interesting, proven, phenomenon
Caleb Johnson
Ar-doy-gn
Angel Powell
carbine
Grayson Miller
It doesn't matter because we can own them and you never will, you no guns yuopoor faggot so how we pronounce it is correct
Leo Thompson
fuck off anglo faggot
Noah Gomez
Same as the basic element: Car-bun
Chase Anderson
Arr-dohn
James Powell
Americans who heard the word first from the firearms world say it car bean, Americans who heard it first from video games say it car byne t. guy who first heard it from shooting dudes with my purple space gun and continues to say car byne despite knowing it tickles the autism of a bunch of people
Ok listen up wordlets. Both pronunciations are accepted. There is no 'correct' way to pronounce anything, only various degrees of social acceptability. You could pronounce carbine as carbon, but you'd be thought a brainlet.
