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Originally Posted by jayswin
I can't see a way that fire could be pronounced as one syllable. You have an FI and an RE (Fie-er). The only way you could pronounce that as one is if you pronounced it as a different word, like fur.
I think you may just be pushing it together in your head, saying it fast and thinking you're using one syllable, but still using two.
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I think the thing you have is liquid consonants which factor in. Consider the word child. I have heard it said like “chy-uld”. But there is only one vowel and one syllable.
I looked at this website to see, and I generally come down to the answer being one.
https://www.howmanysyllables.com/howtocountsyllables