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To err is human, including the way we say it.
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My question is not about original meaning but about original pronunciation, which may in fact be linked to word origin. I was 45 years old when an older man with a PhD from a New England Ivy League university told me that "err" is pronounced like the first syllable in EARly and not like AIR. According to standard dictionaries, both pronunciations are accepted. But which pronunciation is the older one, assuming there was one?
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