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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Good point. I typically pronounce fire for example as a single syllable.
I have heard a friend pronounce it with one or two depending on when saying firewall (1) or just fire (fy-er).
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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.