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"Idea", by the way, since you randomly misspelled it twice, I supply the correction in case you're a very proficient English learner.

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So uh. Well, I'm from the american south and I've heard plenty of people say idear instead of idea. Mostly older people or people with very strong rural accents/dialect.

Apparently also a british thing I just found out: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/32630

That it is pronounced differently in some regions of the same country does not change its spelling within that country's borders.

There exist spelling variations for various words within a country's borders. Why would this one be any different?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idear

Yeah, I mean if we all understood regardless, it can’t matter that much in an informal setting.

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