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Sabine River pronunciation

Posted on 2/5/22 at 1:32 pm
Posted by turnpiketiger
Southeast Texas
Member since May 2020
9580 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 1:32 pm
Let’s settle this once and for all. How do you pronounce Sabine and where are you from?

In SE Texas all I’ve heard is Suh-bean.
Posted by WinnPtiger
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2011
23926 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 1:33 pm to
quote:

Suh-bean.
Posted by SixthAndBarone
Member since Jan 2019
8346 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 1:33 pm to
Say-bean
Posted by turnpiketiger
Southeast Texas
Member since May 2020
9580 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 1:34 pm to
Where are you from
Posted by Joshjrn
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2008
27243 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 1:34 pm to
quote:

Suh-bean
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
54081 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 1:35 pm to
Short a, Sa-bean
Posted by Displaced
Member since Dec 2011
32720 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 1:35 pm to
Say-bean
Posted by turnpiketiger
Southeast Texas
Member since May 2020
9580 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 1:37 pm to
Nobody is helping because I want to know where the pronunciation comes from. List your region
Posted by Them
People's Republic of Bozeman
Member since Nov 2008
11140 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 1:39 pm to
I'm from BR, I've always heard say-BEAN
Posted by OK Roughneck
The Sooner State
Member since Aug 2021
9682 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:01 pm to
quote:

Suh-bean


Same ... Oklahoma
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
73856 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:03 pm to
if you're from Zwolle it's sab'een, a sound as in scab
Posted by SixthAndBarone
Member since Jan 2019
8346 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:05 pm to
quote:

Nobody is helping because I want to know where the pronunciation comes from. List your region


Damn, getting a little personal, aren’t you?
Posted by gaetti15
AK
Member since Apr 2013
13371 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:11 pm to
Sah-bean.

Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
35164 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:13 pm to
If you wanna trigger people, sah-Ben-yay
Posted by tonydtigr
Beautiful Downtown Glenn Springs,Tx
Member since Nov 2011
5141 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:13 pm to
Bat'n Rudge checking in and it's Say-bean.
Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
21238 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:14 pm to
quote:

Sah-bean.



I've only heard that in Deep East Texas, piney woods region up around Nacogdoches.

In Houston and SE Texas, I think most of us say "Suh-bine."
Posted by BHM
Member since Jun 2012
3174 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:16 pm to
Suh-bean

In between Lafayette and Baton Rouge. A few miles south of I-10. Elevation 12'
Posted by gaetti15
AK
Member since Apr 2013
13371 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:17 pm to
Anybody from sabine parish. They are the true soothe sayers of this.
Posted by LAlivin
Member since Jan 2022
29 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:19 pm to
quote:

In between Lafayette and Baton Rouge. A few miles south of I-10. Elevation 12'


Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
62938 posts
Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:19 pm to
Reh'-vur
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