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The rhymes in this section have the ‘eer’ sound of beer and fiercely as their main or final vowel sound.

13.1 beer, bier, blear, cere, cheer, clear, dear, deer, drear, ear, fear, gear, Greer, hear, here, jeer, kir, leer, Lear, mere, Mir, near, peer, pier, queer, rear, sear, sere, shear, sheer, smear, sneer, spear, sphere, steer, stere, tear, tier, Trier, veer, Wear, we’re, weir, Weir, year, * appear, frontier, De Vere, adhere, unclear, career, uprear, veneer, Kashmir, apnoea, Tangier, cashier, emir, Vermeer, endear, revere, revers, severe, inhere, mishear, King Lear, midyear, besmear, Kinnear, sincere, vizier, Zaïre, idea, austere, chorea, all-clear, cohere, Hosea, * Tranmere, Tangmere, cashmere, Hampshire, Grasmere, Berkshire, Ayrshire, tapir, Shakespeare, fakir, nadir, reindeer, headgear, Ellesmere, Cheshire, wheatear, switchgear, Kingswear, Wiltshire, compeer, Shropshire, Yorkshire, roe deer, Goodyear, * halberdier, Agadir, balladeer, pamphleteer, gazetteer, stratosphere, atmosphere, bandolier, chandelier, cavalier, Cavalier, cameleer, gasolier, Lancashire, Staffordshire, racketeer, gadgeteer, bathysphere, Vladimir, Casimir, Aboukir, Hertfordshire, marketeer, Chanticleer, Derbyshire, Haslemere, Cambridgeshire, belvedere, grenadier, megathere, seborrhoea, yesteryear, Delamere, Benazir, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, hemisphere, Bedivere, Elzevir, engineer, technofear, persevere, reappear, ecosphere, disappear, ginger beer, brigadier, interfere, lithosphere, crystal-clear, Windermere, cuirassier, Lincolnshire, Guinevere, insincere, privateer, biosphere, diarrhoea, pyorrhoea, Tyne and Wear, pioneer, bombardier, commandeer, volunteer, troposphere, gondolier, logorrhoea, gonorrhoea, Rothermere, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Conybeare, rocketeer, profiteer, sonneteer, domineer, Warwickshire, auctioneer, corsetier, Paul Revere, mountaineer, oversteer, overhear, sloganeer, understeer, Buttermere, buccaneer, puppeteer, musketeer, Worcestershire, souvenir, muleteer, fusilier, mutineer, scrutineer, * titanothere, Northamptonshire, electioneer, ionosphere, ozonosphere, * charioteer, orienteer, amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, adipocere, Nottinghamshire, Buckinghamshire, Golda Meir, Guadalquivir, carabineer

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,

And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.

ALEXANDER POPE

13.2 beard, cheered, cleared, eared, jeered, leered, peered, reared, smeared, sneered, speared, steered, tiered, veered, weird, * appeared, afeard, adhered, careered, veneered, revered, * Blackbeard, bat-eared, lop-eared, goatsbeard, Bluebeard, * engineered, disappeared, pioneered, domineered, etc.

13.3 real, * surreal, unreal, ideal, * gonorrhoeal

13.4 Bierce, fierce, Pearse, pierce, Pierce, tierce

13.5 beers, cheers, ears, fears, gears, hears, jeers, peers, Piers, Sears, shears, sneers, spears, Spears, Squeers, tears, tiers, years, * appears, arrears, careers, Algiers, Tangiers, in tears, ideas, all ears, * Cavaliers, engineers, etc.

Mademoiselle from Armenteers,

Hasn’t been kissed for forty years.

Military song

14.1 realty, Brearley, clearly, dearly, merely, nearly, queerly, really, yearly, weirdly, fiercely, Beardsley, beery, bleary, cheery, Cleary, dearie, dreary, eerie, Erie, eyrie, Leary, leery, Neary, Peary, peri, query, smeary, sneery, teary, theory, weary, Deirdre, Tierney, * unclearly, surreally, severely, sincerely, ideally, Dun Laoghaire, Valkyrie, Kashmiri, O’Leary, * insincerely

14.2 weirder, theatre, era, clearer, dearer, hearer, Hera, lira, nearer, queerer, rearer, sclera, sera, shearer, smearer, sneerer, steerer, Vera, fiercer, piercer, * Madeira, Utsire, Elvira, sincerer, chimera, coherer, * sheepshearer, * amphitheatre, rangatira, lavatera, antisera, aloe vera, D’Oliviera, * reared her, cheer her, etc.

14.3 bearded, rearward

14.4 queried, wearied, * unwearied

14.5 peerage, steerage, * arrearage

14.6 cheerful, fearful, tearful, feral, scleral, spheral, Pearsall, tiercel

14.7 serum, theorem, fearsome, meerschaum, * antiserum, * fear ’em, hear ’em, etc.

14.8 deerskin, Erin, * jeerin’, piercin’, etc.

14.9 Reardon, Kieran, Viren, spearman, steersman, Pearson, * Madeiran, frontiersman

14.10 cerement, vehement, * adherent, inherent, coherent, endearment, * incoherent

14.11 clearance, vehemence, * appearance, adherence, adherents, coherence, endearments, * perseverance, reappearance, interference, incoherence, nonappearance

14.12 shearling, yearling, cheering, clearing, earring, gearing, hearing, jeering, rearing, searing, shearing, sneering, steering, piercing, * appearing, veneering, endearing, revering, * sheep-shearing, child-rearing, God-fearing, * engineering, persevering, disappearing, interfering, pioneering, profiteering, domineering, auctioneering, mountaineering, scrutineering, * electioneering, * orienteering, * bioengineering, etc.

14.13 peeress, Beatrice

14.14 cheerless, earless, fearless, peerless, beardless, sclerous, serous, clearness, dearness, nearness, weirdness, fierceness, * Severus, * Algeciras, * Ahasuerus, * hear us, feared us, etc.

14.15 realist, theorist, pianist, * surrealist, idealist, careerist

14.16 weirdest, clearest, dearest, nearest, queerest, fiercest, * sincerest, etc.

14.17 Kyrgyz, queries, series, theories, wearies, Deirdre’s, * miniseries, etc.

14.18 cheerier, drearier, eerier, wearier, * bacteria, anterior, Algeria, exterior, interior, listeria, wisteria, hysteria, inferior, diphtheria, Iberia, Liberia, Siberia, Nigeria, posterior, ulterior, superior, * cafeteria, sansevieria, Lake Superior, etc.

14.19 hearable, steerable, cereal, ferial, serial, Cheeryble, * material, bacterial, arterial, imperial, Imperial, ethereal, venereal, sidereal, funereal, * immaterial, monasterial, managerial, magisterial, ministerial, * antibacterial

14.20 cerium, * bacterium, imperium, deuterium, * magisterium

14.21 Pierian, * Adlerian, Kashmirian, Cancerian, Algerian, Wagnerian, Shakespearean, Spenserian, Zaïrian, Iberian, Liberian, Siberian, Hyperion, criterion, Nigerian, Chaucerian, Mousterian, Sumerian, * Hanoverian, Presbyterian, trans-Siberian

14.22 experience, * inexperience

14.23 cheerfulness, fearlessness, serious, dreariness, weariness, * imperious, mysterious, Tiberias, Tiberius, * Desiderius, deleterious, etc.

For the writing of verse is a struggle mysterious

And the gayest of rhymes is a matter that’s serious.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES