How do YOU pronounce this word?

If you are then so am I maw.

I'm with eerah too.

Same as you - eerah. I'm not I'd want to live in any error.

not sure I'd

Eerah for me too!

I say it to rhyme with Vera.

I heard that too Maw and winced each time it was repeated. It certainly should be "eerah".

Eerah from me too

Nope I don’t think your wrong maw I would pronounce it the same as you. I think it’s often a case of where in the country you come from and your accent makes for how we pronounce our words. My Manchester relatives pronunce ‘hospital’ as hospikal and don’t get me started on the southern (my children included) ‘barth’ when thereis no ‘r’ in bath. I’m too tired to make a list of my wonderful Irish pronunciations, my husbands ‘tree’ rather than three still causes lots of laughter. We’re a mixed bunch of accents here

That's been bugging me too maw.
I too would pronounce it eerah to rhyme with Vera as MissAdventure said.

Now I'm always going to think of my friend's sister Vera as Verror!

Era is from the Latin aera (which can be written with a ligature). I've heard is pronounced either way in American English.

If you look at this list of words which include ae, you start to notice how pronunciation varies e.g hæmorrhoid and leukæmia. Both words have been simplified in American English to replace the ligature with the letter e but I think both countries use short e and long e respectively when spoken.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_that_may_be_spelled_with_a_ligature

Definitely eerah like Vera and definitely not eerer like terror

My Manchester relatives pronunce ‘hospital’ as hospikal my friend from Manchester pronounces it like that, and little as likal (she is an educated woman!)

Eerah as in Veerah

Eerah like Vera.

Eerah!

Same here, rhyming with Vera.

I am a bit tired of "there is no r in bath" because Southerners say bath with a long a but no r; they don't day barth. And yes, I say era, haemorrhoid, leukaemia and even anaemia with a long e, but not usually in the same sentence.

Yep, I'm also an eeera as in Vera.
However i have heard others say it as erra like Sarah.

Surely that is just a regional pronunciation. I had a Scottish colleague who made the word poetry sound far more poetic than my RP..

Eerah! for me

I do live in an error a lot of the time but I prefer an earah!

I’m with MawBroon, earah.

It's an " eera ". No wonder kids can't speak properly if they're being taught the wrong pronunciations.I despair !