One year I wanted a mirror to see my entire body in since I couldn't do that with the bathroom mirror and my mom got one and wrapped it in front of my little brother. (I was probably playing at a friend's house at the time.) When I came home and saw the big, rectangular shaped gift he was like "that gift rhymes with "irror!" He pronounced it like ee-er to make it sound like "mirror" as much as possible.
Edit for context since I didn't explain it very well: He was a toddler- maybe four at the time. We usually pronounce it as "meer," but he wanted to tell me what it was without telling me what it was by exaggerating every syllable. Like if the word was "horror" he would've said "Or-Er!" with a small pause between the two syllables.
I'm a non-native speaker. I worked at a primary school for a while, as a TA. I learnt English through reading and hearing it on TV, so I learnt to pronounce stuff almost mechanically. Imagine my face, trying to simulatenously learn and teach these kids phonics/diagraphs/trigraphs. I probably looked like this the whole time:
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u/callmefreak 2d ago edited 2d ago
One year I wanted a mirror to see my entire body in since I couldn't do that with the bathroom mirror and my mom got one and wrapped it in front of my little brother. (I was probably playing at a friend's house at the time.) When I came home and saw the big, rectangular shaped gift he was like "that gift rhymes with "irror!" He pronounced it like ee-er to make it sound like "mirror" as much as possible.
Edit for context since I didn't explain it very well: He was a toddler- maybe four at the time. We usually pronounce it as "meer," but he wanted to tell me what it was without telling me what it was by exaggerating every syllable. Like if the word was "horror" he would've said "Or-Er!" with a small pause between the two syllables.