I'm at Parkland College (for a few decades) helping folks navigate developmental courses/placements (but fighting the "hey, 5% of these folks could pass college so we should just get rid of developmental teaching" trends) dreaming of structured paths for building understanding *and* fluency instead of "I don't have time to teach you, here's a calculator."
See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvTlNmNI7nC9xMrVp2cc3d5RjWnpho0exwA_t86eWbI/edit?usp=sharing
Replying to @julian@activitypub.space
@julian It's an "r-controlled" syllable.
So, it depends on what youur "syllable" rules are, oh, and how you say it.
Some dialects pretty much pronounce it 'far' (joke about the Southern child who thought the wise men were firefighters beause they were "coming from afar")....
one...
That song? Fiiiiii yerrrr!!! That's two.