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It has confused me, as I (And friends) pronounce it Bee Whore. It has made me look at bees in a new way. No shaming of bees, please.
Edit: Maybe this is to do with my British accent?
I mean, there's emojis like bee snuggle fox available
Cute emoji though I am not sure if that is a Bee sized Fox or a Fox sized Bee.
The answer is yes.
I think that is how most people pronounce it because Yee haw kind of sounds like yee whore. though it has a very different meaning.
What? Not in my accent. Is yours one of those where "claws" and "doors" rhyme?
Yes Claws and Doors rhymes in my accent.
How else would you pronounce them?
different vowel sounds (short A like "father" versus long O like "oat")
different final sounds (one ends with the mouth still on the vowel sound, one ends with an R sound)
Klaas and doh-errs.
Close enough, though "doors" is one syllable when I say it. Definitely not even a slant rhyme, though.
Some northeastern US accents do something similar. Not sure the exact term for it but it is a linguistic thing. Words that end in A get turned into an R sound, like Emma sounding like Emmer.
Certain British accents (like a London accent) have an 'aw' in particular sound like 'or'. Not sure about Australian.