>I work in the south, still I doubt whether anyone says "beer" with the same ee sounds as in één or been. Right? That's exactly how I pronounce it and I didn't

>I work in the south, still I doubt whether anyone says "beer" with the same ee sounds as in één or been. Right? That's exactly how I pronounce it and I didn't even know there was another way to pronounce it until now. I even checked Wiktionary to see if you weren't joking. I guess you don't work over the border south? Counting is indeed very confusing too, I had a lot of trouble with it as a kid and it took a while to get used to it. Until I learned English and other languages and started mixing things up again. But I don't think we can (or should) change that, changing spelling is at least something that's possible.