How to pronounce mire

1 : wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) the mire is relieved only by small stretches of open dry forest — Saturday Review. 2 : heavy often deep mud or slush The troops trudged onward through the mire. 3 : a troublesome or intractable situation found themselves in a mire of debt.

When people do it, they aren’t just randomly or lazily leaving off a sound. This “h“-dropping occurs in a specific environment—only in words that start with a “hyu.” If they drop it in huge, they also drop it in humor, humid, humiliation, humongous, and Hugh.