Yes, the UK speaker said it as fyour - OR. We say it (or at least I do) more like fyour. The "or" at the end is incorporated into the first part, if that makes sense.

The US one sounds like two to me.

Oh, I do remember our discussion of the pronunciation of fire. Don't you say that with one syllable? Same here with us for furor.

No we say it with two: fy-er.

We have had a few discussions here about the pronunciation of fire. Here's one. The reason I asked about furor was because, generally, I thought the British said words faster than Americans do so they generally say words with fewer syllables. However, I might be wrong - particularly since in one of those posts Bob wrote that he doesn't even believe in syllables!

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Originally posted by arnie:
No we say it with two: fy-er.

No matter how many syllables they've used, my former bosses have always said it loudly and in the present perfect tense while pointing towards the door.

Kalleh I'e never heard furor as one syllable. I thought it was always said "fur-er." Maybe the last syllable is just elided into the r in your accent.

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I thought it was always said "fur-er."

"fyur-ah" heah.

Two syllables: /fjɚ.ɚ/

This may be one of those U.S. east coast vs. the rest of the U.S. sort of thing, much like the whole pronunciation of "error" controversy. Sometimes I feel our easterners pronounce words more like people in the U.K. than like the rest of the country.

I, and most people here in the midwest at least, say it with one syllable (maybe 1 1/2?) like "f-your."