Is been pronounced been or bin?
A: Most Americans pronounce “been” as BIN or BEN. Most speakers of British English now say BEAN, but this was not always the case. In the past, “been” was pronounced as BIN (and probably BEN) in Britain too.
How do you pronounce have been?
How do the British say Been?
/biːn/ is British strong form of ‘been‘, pronounced when the word is stressed. /bɪn/ is the weak form, whose vowel – /ɪ/ – is reduced from /iː/ Similar phenomena happen with other words, especially with pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and auxiliary verbs: ‘a’ (/eɪ/ => /ə/), ‘she’ (/ʃiː/ => /ʃi/), and ‘