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How do you pronounce "carbine"?

  • Car-Bean

    Votes: 115 84.6%
  • Car-Byne

    Votes: 19 14.0%
  • Um, eh, what is a carbine?

    Votes: 2 1.5%

  • Total voters
    136
So, today I had to bring a carbine in for repair. Then I checked Forgotten Weapons and, coincidently, there is a short video on the topic of pronunciation of said word.

I've heard both over the years. Though I've always used "Car-Bean". I don't know why, though I suspect it is because my father pronounced it that way.

So, purely out of idle curiosity, how do you say it?
 
Toe may toe
Too maht toe

Ore ee gun
Ore rah gun
Ore rah gan

Na va duh
Neh vah da
 
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In the Willys Jeep world there is the same silly thing. The family pronounced it Will-is and the rest of the world says Willees so there you go. I own a Willys Jeep
 

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