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Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> In article . net>,
> Blinky the Shark > wrote:
>
>> > Sound like A: beige, deign, dreidel, eight, feign, feint, freight,
>> > heinous, heir, neigh, neighbor, peignoir, rein, surfeit, veil, vein,
>> > weight,

>>
>> Heir has a long A sound?

>
> I've always pronounced heir as air. I've always pronounced air with a
> long 'a'. But I stand to be corrected.


As ay-er?


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