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Turbine - do you say "turbin" or "turbine" ?
02GF74 - 30/8/12 at 08:19 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01m9vjl/Jet!_When_Britain_Ruled_the_Skies_The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come

[Edited on 31/8/12 by 02GF74]

Liam - 30/8/12 at 08:25 PM

Turbine, cos I'm not a weirdo!

Isn't a turbin a kind of religious hat?

femster87 - 30/8/12 at 08:51 PM

An old boy at work says turbin

owelly - 30/8/12 at 08:52 PM

My daughter call them 'turnbines'. Which makes more sense to a three year old.
Turbine for me.

bi22le - 30/8/12 at 09:18 PM

The way that you have spelt it at one point i say "turbine"!!

Soz. I normally say turbine, turbin is a Sikh head dress.

phelpsa - 30/8/12 at 09:33 PM

I had an eastern European thermodynamics lecturer who pronounced it 'turbin'. Endless amounts of fun listening out for the corkers in lectures.

MikeRJ - 30/8/12 at 09:48 PM

I'd probably pronounce it "troo-bine" if I knew what it was. The spinny thing is a "tur-bine" though

02GF74 - 30/8/12 at 10:13 PM

i'm no spring chicken but have never ever heard it pronounced tur-bin, weird that, in fact i've ne er even considered it could be pronoun ced any way other than trubine.

BTW the linky is worth a watch - see if you can spot ronald mcdonald .

Steve Hignett - 30/8/12 at 11:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
BTW the linky is worth a watch - see if you can spot ronald mcdonald .


Haven't watched it through yet to spot R McD, but I can't make my mind up whether it's an old or new sequence of sketches on the A3 (or A2) piece of paper at 2min 17secs as it is very similar (in my humble opinion) to a Bugatti Veyron at the bottom left!!!

foskid - 31/8/12 at 06:40 AM

Only one answer here Turbine, I would have thought the turbin option would have originated in the US redneck regions, a bit like potato--potAto if you get my drift

Daddylonglegs - 31/8/12 at 08:14 AM

^^^^^ +1

femster87 - 31/8/12 at 09:27 AM

Ok, according to cambridge dictionary online

UK is Turbine
Us is Turbin

linky
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/turbine

[Edited on 31/8/12 by femster87]

beagley - 31/8/12 at 02:40 PM

quote:
Originally posted by femster87
Ok, according to cambridge dictionary online

UK is Turbine
Us is Turbin

linky
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/turbine

[Edited on 31/8/12 by femster87]


That's funny..... I've always known it to be spelled and pronounced "turbine"..... I've never heard "turbin" before..... just sounds weird.

Westy1994 - 31/8/12 at 02:48 PM

The US pronounce certain words completely different to us in the UK, one that springs to mind straight away is 'processes'

They pronounce that as process'seas' ....

That is just one example of many.