How do you pronounce the word Turbine, as in a gas, steam, or jet engine turbine?

Is it tur-bin, like I put the trash in the recycling bin?
Or tur-bine, with bine rhyming with spine?

6/8/2008 12:36:32 PM

the b is silent

6/8/2008 12:37:14 PM

turrrrine

6/8/2008 12:37:40 PM

i say bin

6/8/2008 12:37:54 PM

like I put the trash in the recycling bin

6/8/2008 12:38:39 PM

i say bine. but what do i know.

6/8/2008 12:39:11 PM

I say bine. Turbine != turban

6/8/2008 12:40:06 PM

This is the problem some people have with the first one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turban

[Edited on June 8, 2008 at 12:40 PM. Reason : got beat to it]

[Edited on June 8, 2008 at 12:41 PM. Reason : WE DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH THE TOWEL HEADS!]

6/8/2008 12:40:07 PM

turbine

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6/8/2008 12:41:36 PM

it's them versus us, right?

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6/8/2008 12:42:44 PM

I'm a non-engineer, but I'm from the north, where we say turb-eye-ne.

6/8/2008 12:44:16 PM

turbine like turban

6/8/2008 12:44:46 PM

wtf, these answers are like split half way.

WILL I NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH??

6/8/2008 1:08:29 PM

According to dictionary.com, both are acceptable.

tur·bine /'t?rb?n, -ba?n/ Pronunciation Key [tur-bin, -bahyn]

6/8/2008 1:10:07 PM

The thing is, at one point, an engineer had corrected me, saying that you'll get made fun of for saying the wrong one at a power plant. And I was like 'okay sure', but then later I forgot which one it was, so I've been asking people, but to no avail.

6/8/2008 1:12:30 PM

bin

around engineers, say bin.

around cool people, say bahyn.

6/8/2008 1:13:53 PM

doesn't the e make it a strong i?

so bine not bin

6/8/2008 1:21:05 PM

You'd think that.

In high school, my earth science teacher made sure we said, "bin".

6/8/2008 1:22:18 PM

bahyn sounds so gangster.

6/8/2008 1:26:13 PM

i've always been confused why bicycle is said cicle but unicycle is not.

6/8/2008 1:28:01 PM

people in the industry say turbin

6/8/2008 1:33:15 PM

The turban industry?

6/8/2008 1:33:37 PM

tur-bine

i work in the SOL-AR TUR-BINES building

i hate saying in that way but its how its said round these parts

6/8/2008 1:34:51 PM

Up next: Carbine

6/8/2008 1:36:43 PM

car+ bean

6/8/2008 1:37:59 PM

kahr-bun?

6/8/2008 1:42:13 PM

?

6/8/2008 1:45:06 PM

just hit me:

clementine

6/8/2008 1:46:07 PM

ooops.

[Edited on June 8, 2008 at 2:08 PM. Reason : wrong thread.]

6/8/2008 2:07:51 PM

I say it the latter way; my grandfather, whose first project on moving to africa was getting the farm electrified via water, says it the first way.

Quote :

"doesn't the e make it a strong i? so bine not bin "

To some people, these rules don't matter. E.g., people who say caramel CAR-muhl

[Edited on June 8, 2008 at 2:49 PM. Reason : totally ignoring that A in the middle]

6/8/2008 2:48:25 PM

How do you say gigawatt?

How do you say gigabyte?

Is it a care - uh - mail apple or a car - mul apple?

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6/8/2008 4:45:01 PM

Quote :

" tur-bine, with bine rhyming with spine"

6/8/2008 4:51:37 PM

whoseawhatsit

6/8/2008 5:00:12 PM

<- is an engineer. and i say _bine_ as in tur-bine

6/8/2008 5:01:27 PM

Quote :

"i've always been confused why bicycle is said cicle but unicycle is not."

on a similar note, motorcicle is one of the most redneck pronunciations i've ever heard.

6/8/2008 5:19:23 PM

like turb with the ine pronounced like nine, long I

6/8/2008 6:03:14 PM

tur-bine, with bine rhyming with spine

6/8/2008 6:04:30 PM

I like to say kilo-meter not kilom-eter just like you would say kilo-gram not kilog-ram(kilo-liter vs kilol-iter).

6/8/2008 8:05:43 PM

tur-bine

6/8/2008 8:07:07 PM

^^ Yeah, Well I say mile you euro fag!

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6/8/2008 8:11:03 PM

tur-bine....turban is like what durkas wear

6/8/2008 8:13:19 PM

i pronounce it tur-bine

bine rhymes with spine

6/8/2008 8:14:26 PM

Quote :

"on a similar note, motorcicle is one of the most redneck pronunciations i've ever heard."

separate point all together but I enjoy referring to mopeds as liquorcicles. mainly if they are 40 and clearly not worried about saving money on gas.

6/8/2008 8:19:34 PM

bine

because i'm american

6/8/2008 8:21:48 PM

depends where you work/who you work with. if you work with redneck roughnecks you'll call it somethin different than if you worked with corporate engineers.


doesn't make a lick of difference how you say it unless you know shit about it, that's the real engineer way anyway.

6/8/2008 8:29:50 PM

^ so which one is which, the redneck one and the Yankee one?

6/8/2008 8:33:24 PM

So how do you pronounce "component?"

Is it COM - pon - ent or com - PO - nent ?

6/8/2008 8:43:41 PM

i'd have to say the redneck one is prolly "turbin"

yankee - "turbine"



once you really get into it though you rarely hear the textbook vocab in the industry.

6/8/2008 9:01:10 PM

I think you have that reversed.

I've never heard anyone from NC say turbine like turban. It's usually foreigners who say turbine like turban.

6/8/2008 9:02:36 PM

yea it may be reversed, i donno i can see a redneck saying it either way.

depends on the redneck though

if he heard a yankee say it one way once, he may try to show off to his friends and say it the same way..... then you have the other kind of redneck, where he's stubborn as shit and purposely says it different than the yankee because they beat down the confederahsay

6/8/2008 9:05:43 PM