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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It has confused me, as I (And friends) pronounce it Bee Whore. It has made me look at bees in a new way. No shaming of bees, please.

Edit: Maybe this is to do with my British accent?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I think that is how most people pronounce it because Yee haw kind of sounds like yee whore. though it has a very different meaning.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

What? Not in my accent. Is yours one of those where "claws" and "doors" rhyme?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

How else would you pronounce them?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

different vowel sounds (short A like "father" versus long O like "oat")

different final sounds (one ends with the mouth still on the vowel sound, one ends with an R sound)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Close enough, though "doors" is one syllable when I say it. Definitely not even a slant rhyme, though.

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