How do you pronounce...

[nq:1]The name of "Jane AUSTEN" ? (aust-een) like "gr-een" ? (aust-en) like "spok-en" ? or..[/nq]
Like "spoken." I find it hard to imagine that any English word ending in "-en" has the sound "een" except for those ending in "-een."

Soften, harden, listen, swollen, brethren, often, women, ripen it's a very common sound.

Best Donna Richoux

[nq:2]The name of "Jane AUSTEN" ? (aust-een) like "gr-een" ? (aust-en) like "spok-en" ? or..[/nq]
[nq:1]Like "spoken."[/nq]
Rhymes with "Boston" for some of us (all AmE/CanE speakers, I'd think).
[nq:1]I find it hard to imagine that any English word ending in "-en" has the sound "een" except for those ending in "-een."[/nq]
There's also some that end in -ien.
[nq:1]Softe

[nq:1]The name of "Jane AUSTEN" ? (aust-een) like "gr-een" ? (aust-en) like "spok-en" ? or..[/nq]
The second name of the author, should anyone want to waste their time reading her novels or not, rhymes with tin.
[nq:1]Thank you ![/nq]
No problem!

Charles Riggs

[nq:2]The name of "Jane AUSTEN" ? (aust-een) like "gr-een" ? (aust-en) like "spok-en" ? or..[/nq]
[nq:1]Like "spoken." I find it hard to imagine that any English word ending in "-en" has the sound "een" except for those ending in "-een." Soften, harden, listen, swollen, brethren, often, women, ripen it's a very common sound.[/nq]
"Women" doesn't fit with the others, for me. "Wimmin" seems

[nq:2]The name of "Jane AUSTEN" ? (aust-een) like "gr-een" ? (aust-en) like "spok-en" ? or..[/nq]
[nq:1]Like "spoken." I find it hard to imagine that any English word ending in "-en" has the sound "een" except for those ending in "-een." Soften, harden, listen, swollen, brethren, often, women, ripen it's a very common sound.[/nq]
I don't know if this is a pondiality, but I pronounce "Auste

[nq:2]The name of "Jane AUSTEN" ? (aust-een) like "gr-een" ? (aust-en) like "spok-en" ? or..[/nq]
[nq:1]The second name of the author, should anyone want to waste their time reading her novels or not, rhymes with tin.[/nq]
For me it rhymes more with "ten". You're not one of those "pin = pen" people, are you?

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:1]The name of "Jane AUSTEN" ? (aust-een) like "gr-een" ? (aust-en) like "spok-en" ? or.... Thank you ![/nq]
It's the usual practice to discourage alt.usage.english posters from inquiring about things that can be looked up easily in a dictionary.
A lot of dictionaries don't list names of people in the main lexicon, but some do. One that lists "Austen" is at

[nq:2]The second name of the author, should anyone want to waste their time reading her novels or not, rhymes with tin.[/nq]
[nq:1]For me it rhymes more with "ten". You're not one of those "pin = pen" people, are you?[/nq]
For me it's a schwa: /Ost@n/, as is "Austin" (Texas), rhyming with "Boston". Based on the spelling, I'd say the second syllable like "ten" if I had to emphasize it (wher

[nq:1]The name of "Jane AUSTEN" ? (aust-een) like "gr-een" ? (aust-en) like "spok-en" ? or..[/nq]
More probably osstin, the second syllable a schwa
(or very nearly.) Pronunciation of the first syllable may vary more, because Texas has a city named Austin,
and Texans may sound the first syllable AWSS
whereas people in England (where Austen lived)
wold say OSS + tin.

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[nq:2]For me it rhymes more with "ten". You're not one of those "pin = pen" people, are you?[/nq]
[nq:1]For me it's a schwa: /Ost@n/, as is "Austin" (Texas), rhyming with "Boston". Based on the spelling, I'd say the second syllable like "ten" if I had to emphasize it (whereas with "Austin" I'd say it like "tin").[/nq]
I make a slight difference even when not emphasizing the pronunciation,