Carbine is pronounced how?

[TheOtherOne]

I've always thought and mostly heard it pronounced as Car"bean", but I just saw the movie fight club and there was a part where he was talking about an Armalite AR-10 Carbine and he pronounced it like it's spelled. Like you would say the "ine" in wine.

 

[Byron]

I am native of Georgia in the N GA mountains. I have always heard it as car"bean" as well as when I was in nam in 68 when we had a M2 that some point men used. Byron

 

[Marnoot]

I've always pronounced it carbine as in wine. Dictionary.com lists both pronunciations as correct; so I don't know what the original pronunciation was.

 

[bigmtnman]

I've always heard it pronounced car-bean. Maybe it's one of those words where both pronunciations are correct. ie. comparable - com-pair-able or com-per-abull.

 

[rbernie]

I don't know what the original pronunciation was.

Well, AFAIK the original pronunciation was/is 'kahr-ah-beeen-ah', being a French word and all....

 

[JL2152]

I go with Car-bean personaly. If i hear someone go with carbine as in wine it doesn't bother me.

 

[iamkris]

Looks like you're all right but I prefer "kar-bean" personally

car·bine ( P ) Pronunciation Key
(kärbe[long]n, -bi[long]n)
n.
A lightweight rifle with a short barrel.

 

[dghboy315]

good question. i always wanted to know this.

 

[Carlos Cabeza]

Carabiner is the thing mountain climbers use when reppelling. I've always been a car-bean pronunciation guy. Either way it's all good.

 

[BigG]

It rhymes with "iodine," unless yer a furriner.

 

[SLCDave]

The "e" should make the "i" long (as in wine, brine, mine, fine, etc), so I've always pronounced it in that manner.

 

[spacemanspiff]

carbine - pronounced 'ph-uhn'

 

[Highland Ranger]

bean from my Dad and the Korean war + Brooklyn accent

 

[BigG]

Think about it: This ween of meen is very feen? No way! :banghead:

 

[WhiteKnight]

I've also said it like "wine," also.

 

[Lone Star]

This is a "to-may-toe" vs. "to-mott-o" question, but one can sure find people who think they know the answer!

In French, it seems to be as heard in, "Last of the Mohicans"...La Longue Cara"bean". No "uh" on the finish. That sounds more Italian, to me.

To hear it in the movie, listen to Sa'chem's speech toward the last, where he orders Cora burned in his fires, Alice given as a slave to Magua, and bids, "La Longue Carabine" to go in peace. Maj. Hayward (?) then, of course, heroically offers himself to burn in the Huron fires, freeing Cora to marry Hawkeye/La Longue Carabine. (Originally. Sa'chem ordered the Major to be returned to his forces, so that the fires of the English would burn less brightly against the Huron of his village.)

Gosh, that's a powerful movie, the best of the several versions to be made thus far. James Fennimore Cooper would be proud to see how producer Michael Mann treated his book.

Lone Star

 

[Jeff Timm]

Car-bean. Of course I pronounce creek crik.

Geoff
Who is from Ohiah.

 

[SDC]

I say it (and usually hear it) as carbine (rhymes with wine), but once in a while I hear car-bean.

 

[ZeroX]

I say it car-bine but it's fun to say car-bean sometimes.

 

[rust collector]

Call it a kar been

Unless it is fed by a maga ziyn

 

[joab]

According to Marsh Williams carbine is pronounced carbyne as in wine

 

[Mulliga]

I used to say car-byne but now I say car-bean. Whenever I asked for a Bushie Superlight "Carb-byne" before, people looked perplexed.

 

[SkyDaver]

OK, so how about Garand. ga-RAND or GAR-and?

I've always said carbean.

 

[joegerardi]

From Dictionary.com:

3 entries found for Carbine.
car·bine ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kärbeen, -bine)
n.

A lightweight rifle with a short barrel.


[French carabine, from Old French carabin, soldier armed with a musket, perhaps from escarrabin, gravedigger, from scarabee, dung beetle. See scarab.]

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Carbine

\Car"bine\, n. [F. carbine, OF. calabrin carabineer (cf. Ot. calabrina a policeman), fr. OF & Pr. calabre, OF. cable, chable, an engine of war used in besieging, fr. LL. chadabula, cabulus, a kind of projectile machine, fr. Gr. ? a throwing down, fr. ? to throw; ? down + ? to throw. Cf. Parable.] (Mil.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Carbine

n : light automatic rifle

Well, that sould clear things up...

..Joe

 

[GunnySkox]

I say "Car-been" because I think it sounds better that way.

*shrug*

~Slam_Fire