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⟨oir⟩
From Teflpedia
⟨oir⟩ is a vowel trigraph that rarely occurs in English, mostly in French to English loans.
This occurs in words such as abattoir, boudoir, choir, memoir, noir, reservoir.
Pronunciation using English phonemes is usually /w/ followed by the ꜱᴛᴀʀᴛ vowel phoneme. English speakers with rhotic accents will pronounce the final R as /r/; those with non-rhotic accents don’t pronounce the final R except as linking /r/.
But choir is /kwaɪ(j)ə/ or /kwaɪər/.