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Respelling of fire to reflect a non-rhotic pronunciation with glide weakening and smoothing as in Southern or African American Vernacular English
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Respelling of fire to reflect a non-rhotic pronunciation with glide weakening and smoothing as in Southern or African American Vernacular English
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.