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[stevoski]

In New Zealand English, pear rhymes with both bear and fear.

So in a pinch, you can just pretend you learnt English in New Zealand.

[klyrs → stevoski]

Does pear rhyme with beer (how I pronounce fear) or air (how I pronounce bear)?

[yardshop → klyrs]

Pear rhymes with pair and bear and bare and fair and fare, and not with peer or pier or beer or fear or here. So there.

[klyrs → yardshop]

That's how I pronounce those words too, but I was asking our Kiwi friend.