Anonymous
11/12/2024 11:21
Subject: Berenstain Bears
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?
Anonymous
11/12/2024 11:18
Subject: Berenstain Bears
We used 3 syllables “Bear In Stine”
Anonymous
11/12/2024 11:18
Subject: Berenstain Bears
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.
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
11/12/2024 11:08
Subject: Berenstain Bears
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
11/12/2024 11:07
Subject: Berenstain Bears
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