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I've heard so many people saying 'may-er' recently - I was sure that it was pronounced as 'mare' in British English.

Please help, it's driving me batty!

I say Mair.

As it's spelt: may-or

I say mare. But I'm common as muck

Surely it's partly regional? I pronounce it as two syllables. I'm Scottish. Thinking of the one syllable pronunciation, I hear it in an English accent (mostly southern English)

May-or.

Mare.

Mare. (Northern English here). I reckon it's probably down to your accent.

one syllable for me. I say mare, same as the horse.

May ur (Scottish)

I say marr

Mare and I probably generally speak RP.

Obviossly I mean "mare."

2 syllables???

Mair.

Round here some people pronounce there 'they-re' and hair 'hay-re'. I've always thought may-or belonged to the same accent. I say mare fwiw

mare

"obviously" <decides never to post on this board again>

Mare

Mare

mare. To rhyme with hare and dare.

Never have cause to say it to be honest, but if i did I'd say May-ur.

I say mare. I think.

I say may-er. It's an accent thing. THis site has an American and British pronunciation example, and both have two syllables. I think Mare sounds silly, so I'm pleased.

mare - I am southern english a bit RP pronunciation

ummm, cardibach, unless I am missing somethign, that link has an American voice doing the pronuncuation (2 syllables)

Then it has the phonetic pronunciation written next to the word, it gives both may-or and mare (can't write in phonetic as no accents over letters)
So both are correct.