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Originally Posted by getbak
This is their page on Fire: https://www.howmanysyllables.com/words/fire
It shows the pronunciation as:
How is that not two syllables?
Also, if you look up "hire" they say it has one syllable, but "higher" has two... I pronounce both of those words exactly the same.
It also has "flour" as one but "flower" as two. Again, two words that I pronounce the same.
I'm starting to think that I don't know what a syllable is. |
Haha, me too. I don’t like the ‘fah-yer’ description of pronunciation, I would have used ‘f-eye-r’
https://www.howmanysyllables.com/whataresyllables
Funny enough, instead of a word like ‘kite’, they use ‘fire’ as the sample for silent vowels not counting
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If a vowel is silent, it is not counted as a syllable.
example: fire (1 syllable)
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Seems there are a lot of different sites and either 1 or 2 is accepted.
haiku , most importantly, is fine.