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There's no way I'm remembering this wrong
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 There's no way I'm remembering this wrong
November 7, 2015 at 7:25 am
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2015 at 7:26 am by BrokenQuill92.)
Someone borrowed the Delorean or something, because I know I remember this right!
http://youtu.be/mUIPyT21Ss0  RE: There's no way I'm remembering this wrong
November 7, 2015 at 8:57 am
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2015 at 9:27 am by Athene.)
In the 80's we had about 20 of those books, and read them until some of them they fell apart. It was spelled with an e. I'm certain of this because I distinctly remember my sister and I repeatedly fighting over whether the phonetic pronunciation was sty or stee. I don't see why we would've done that it were spelled with an a.
It's entirely possible that Berenstains may have changed the spelling of their name at some point...that is something that families do. Or perhaps I'm just crazy, complete with false memories. The time travel, butterfly effect, parallel universe theory sounds much more exiting, doesn't it? I'm going with that. Btw, BQ...you owe me money in an alternate universe. 
It definitely used to be an 'E', because like Thena said, no one knew how to pronounce it. I had over a dozen of their books, so I'm 100% positive.
Can anyone else see a parable in this?
Well if it is meant as a surname of German origin, it should be -stein, correctly pronounced as -shtyn. It looks weird with an A
Obviously, no one read the volume with the origin tale of how the bear family came to the U.S. The family was Jewish (-stein) and came from a village named Berenstain. An immigration clerk made a mistake and Grandpappy bear, eager to assimilate in his new country without the onus of a Jewish name, just rolled with it. In other words, another Ellis Island mix-up.
Think of it as a Godfather II-style story for tykes. 
Before I watched the vid or even knew what this thread was about, I looked at the title of the vid and said out loud, "why is 'Berenstein' spelled wrong?"
It was definitely spelled with an "e". I wish I now had one of the twenty or thirty copies of the books I had growing up.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
You're a friggin B bear expert. I agree with whatever you say.
And I distinctly remember Nelson Mendela dying
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