# "Bein's how..." Is it used in your neck of the woods? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 1, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392 "2012-02-01T04:36:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/1 "2012-02-01T04:36:07Z")
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I never heard the expression. But when I lived in Omaha for a few years, I heard “bein’s how” quite frequently. It is short for “being as how,” of course, and means “because” or “in that.” For example, I might have heard “I’m going to visit my parents next week, but I’ll have to leave the dog home, bein’s how I’m flying.” Interestingly, I have never to my recollection heard the phrase on television or in a movie, or seen it written in a book. Obviously it’s colloquial speech, but I am wondering just how common it is in the English speaking world. Ever heard it? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/2 "2012-02-01T06:34:53Z")
Northeast US here (specifically New Jersey just across the river from New York City), and no, never heard it. Quite jarring, too, if you ask me, but that’s probably because I didn’t grow up with it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/3 "2012-02-01T06:44:21Z")
Heard around here commonly, at least from me. But I pick up expressions from other parts of the country pretty easily. This sounds southern to me. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/4 "2012-02-01T06:50:03Z")
I’ve lived in the midwest, the southeast, and now the southwest. I’ve never heard this anywhere I’ve lived, but I have heard it in movies or somewhere. I bet it’s a Great Plains thing. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/5 "2012-02-01T06:53:46Z")
It’s also very similar to “seein’ as how” ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/6 "2012-02-01T06:59:48Z")
I think I’ve heard of it somewhere but definitely not around Chicago where I mostly grew up. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/7 "2012-02-01T07:07:37Z")
While I was born and raised in California, my dad’s side of the family is from the south, and I grew saying bein’s how/seein’s how. I now occasionally say “seeing as how”, but always fully pronounced. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/8 "2012-02-01T09:03:40Z")
I don’t know where I picked it up, but it’s a part of my vocabulary and comes naturally to me. I don’t find it strange or unusual. I grew up in Pennsylvania and don’t know if I picked it up there. I always thought everybody said it. I do say “bein’ as how.” I don’t contract the word “as.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/9 "2012-02-01T13:32:01Z")
Nope, never heard it around here in real life (central Florida.) In fact every time I read the thread title I pronounce it like a name “Bane’s How”. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/10 "2012-02-01T18:16:18Z")
Never heard it, unless I heard it in a movie. But I use “seein’ how” all the time. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/11 "2012-02-01T18:38:26Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Never heard it, unless I heard it in a movie. But I use “seein’ how” all the time. I think this is my answer, too. I don’t think I’ve heard it in real life, though (perhaps this is weird) it wouldn’t be jarring to hear it. Maybe that’s because I’m familiar with “seein’ as how”. … Though I don’t think I really know people who say THAT in real life, either. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/12 "2012-02-01T19:48:43Z")
Nope, never heard it. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/13 "2012-02-01T21:26:47Z")
\<----originally a hillbilly. “Being’s how, seeing’s how,” comes natural. “Everhow” instead of however. “Better’n” for better than. “Y’all,” of course, and “you all.” Never said you’uns unless I was making fun of people who talk funny. :eek: Sissy Spacek has always stuck with the way she was raised to talk so you might have heard her use some words like that. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/14 "2012-02-01T21:58:05Z")
Hear it often. I dismiss it as a hillbilly thing. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/15 "2012-02-01T22:05:34Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > It’s also very similar to “seein’ as how” Can’t pin down hearing it beyond: > [@](#): > > Originally posted in **Alice’s Restaurant** > And livin’ in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin’ all that room, \*\*seein’ as how \*\*they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn’t have to take out their garbage for a long time. But it doesn’t sound the least be strange, so I must have run across it more than once. I don’t think I use it, that I recall. Bolding mine. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/16 "2012-02-02T00:57:48Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Can’t pin down hearing it beyond: > > But it doesn’t sound the least be strange, so I must have run across it more than once. > > I don’t think I use it, that I recall. > Bolding mine. You’re quoting a man that rhymed pickle with motorcycle. He can’t be trusted. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/17 "2012-02-02T02:24:33Z")
Interesting. Are “bein’s how” and “seein’s how” synonymous? I have heard, and possibly even used “seein’s how.” The people I knew in Omaha who used “bein’s how” weren’t hillbillies, AFAIK. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/18 "2012-02-02T18:12:25Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > Interesting. Are “bein’s how” and “seein’s how” synonymous? I have heard, and possibly even used “seein’s how.” The people I knew in Omaha who used “bein’s how” weren’t hillbillies, AFAIK. Yeah, they mean exactly the same thing. Neither expression is all that common around here (eastern Kentucky) but they’re not all that uncommon either, especially among older folks. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/19 "2012-02-02T18:20:54Z")
I have lived in California (northern) my whole life and I’ve never heard it, not have I heard “seeing’s how”. It seems to me that one would just use the word “considering”. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392/20 "2012-02-03T05:08:40Z")
I’m from Ohio, and I use both “being as how” and “seeing as how.” I don’t recall them being pronounced as in the OP, though. Here in Houston, I can’t think of anyone I know who uses those phrases. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beins-how-is-it-used-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/611392.md?page=2)