One syllable or Two?

[StreetCowboy]

People tell me that we've been crying out for much too long, now it's time to dance to a different song, but seriously:

One syllable or two?

 

Should "Fire" be sung as one syllable as in "Fields of..." or two, as in "Martin"?

 

 

[samsensam]

 

depends if you're a big country singer...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uWjuconWM0

 

[StreetCowboy]

3 minutes ago, samsensam said:

 

depends if you're a big country singer...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uWjuconWM0

 

I can't believe he said "Fiah" - who knew Stuart Adamson followed rugby league?

I was going to say "Everyone sings country", even when nobody sings

[Kwasaki]

Fields one fire two. 

[StreetCowboy]

It looks like I've lost another hero.  Fire is Fire.  There's no 'ah' in fire.

I was going to link Bananarama, but it seems I am ploughing a lonely furrow here.

[tifino]

 

 

Inspector Clouseau would be an expert on the subject of 'Fire'

 

 

and on 'bomb's too

[StreetCowboy]

2 minutes ago, tifino said:

 

 

Inspector Clouseau would be an expert on the subject of 'Fire'

 

 

and on 'bomb's too

 

Feuhr and beumb are clearly both one-syllable words, and anyone that thinks otherwise is a b'ffoon

 

 

[tifino]

2 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

 

Feuhr and beumb are clearly both one-syllable words, and anyone that thinks otherwise is a b'ffoon

 

 

does this mean you now have an answer? ???? 

[StreetCowboy]

2 minutes ago, tifino said:

does this mean you now have an answer? ???? 

I've always had an answer.  I was looking for support.  

But, like Ian Smith, sometimes you have to go on your own when you know you are right.

[Crossy]

The Move got it right:-

 

 

 

[tutsiwarrior]

an old paramour pronounced beer as bee-yur 'I have a problem with you drinking bee-yur all the time, tutsi...' she grew up in Philadelphia...

 

another pal from California pronounced cruel as crew-ell 'you are lamentably crew-ell in yer presumptions, tutsi...'

 

and then there was the IT instructor that pronounced file as fie-oooh..don't know where he came from, he appeared to have a speech impediment...

 

fie-ah seems to be accepted for fire in most popular music...in Light my fire Jim extends it to three syllables 'try to set the night on fie-ahhh-uhhh (06:50 after the instrumental)...' then a rim shot and Ray comes in...

 

southern folks in the US manage very well with the local soft but clipped language...no wasted syllables...