Americans dipthongize repeated vowels in foreign words even they aren’t 🤔
Like beer is beeyur but kheer (Hindi for milk puddings) is not kheeyur, it’s just a long ee
To get a long vowel in English you typically use two different vowels. To get the meen sound you write mean 🤔
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Though you do have words like reek, seek, seed that are not diphthongs. I guess it’s the r ending that causes particular trouble for English speakers.
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Arabic/Persian origin words are interesting. Like Mir, Pir, Amir, where pronounced non-diphthong-long in Hindi. Meer, Peer, Amir. Iirc Arabs natively pronounce it the same, but English speakers tend to convert them. So the name Amir becomes Ameeyur rather than Ameer.
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Well we don’t have the flipped r for one thing leaving “ur” as the sound for r at the end of a word
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