Berenstain Bears

[Anonymous]

We pronounced it bearn-steen bears. Like Bear with an N attached, and Steen. I thought that was why they were named Bernstein. Because BEARn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We pronounced it bearn-steen bears. Like Bear with an N attached, and Steen. I thought that was why they were named Bernstein. Because BEARn

Or maybe we said Bearn- STINE

[Anonymous]

We pronounced it more like burn-steen. If you'd asked me before this thread to spell it (having not seen one of the books in many years), I would have guessed Bernstein.

I was also in my 30s when I learned that sherbet isn't spelled or pronounced sherbert. Why did I always insert an extra r?

Otherwise I'm normally pretty good at spelling, but those two caught me by surprise.

[Anonymous]

We used 3 syllables “Bear In Stine”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We pronounced it more like burn-steen. If you'd asked me before this thread to spell it (having not seen one of the books in many years), I would have guessed Bernstein.

I was also in my 30s when I learned that sherbet isn't spelled or pronounced sherbert. Why did I always insert an extra r?

Otherwise I'm normally pretty good at spelling, but those two caught me by surprise.

Right, because nobody can remember every pronoun the last syllable as STAIN. So why would it be spelled that way? And why didn’t we pronounce it that way, if that’s how it was spelled?