Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman on Nostr: The way many New Zealand English speakers use the same vowel in both Beer and Bear is ...

The way many New Zealand English speakers use the same vowel in both Beer and Bear is called the "NEAR-SQUARE merger". I distinguish the two, but my daughter doesn't. I love minimal pairs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/r/#Near%E2%80%93square_merger