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Eire

heir

their

6 responses to “eir as in their”

1. Emily says:

   October 5, 2021 at 10:13 am

   Pathetic i can think more than that

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   • alison says:

     October 6, 2021 at 12:52 pm

     OK, what are they? They need to be words with the letters EIR pronounced “air”. I’d be interested to find more.

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     • Alex Enscoe says:

       December 17, 2021 at 7:13 am

       I assume the previous commenter was misunderstanding what this page shows, as this pattern seems extremely rare. I did just find one more that exists in US English, though I’m not sure how it matches up in other dialects : capoeira, /kæəwɛɹə/.

       Am I correct that you wouldn’t include this here since you’d consider the R to be medial and not part of this ‘air’ sound? For me it feels like ‘air,’ but I imagine it might be different in non-rhotic varieties.

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     • Moira says:

       May 30, 2022 at 9:31 pm

       Hi alison,

       – Speir
       – Weir
       – Heirloom
       – Heir

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       • alison says:

         June 1, 2022 at 9:29 am

         Hi Moira, I can’t find ‘speir’ in the Macquarie Dictionary and don’t know that word, and ‘weir’ has the vowel /ear/ not the vowel /air/, the same as ‘weird’, so it is listed here: https://www.spelfabet.com.au/spelling-lists/sorted-by-sound/ear/eir-as-in-weird. I do have ‘heir’ listed here, but I don’t usually include derived words in these list, otherwise they would get completely unwieldy. All the best, Alison

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         • Moira says:

           June 1, 2022 at 4:56 pm

           Hi Alison,
           Thanks for your feedback.

           Speir means to ask.
           Weir means a low dam built across a river to raise the level of water upstream or regulate its flow.

           All the best, Moira