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Technically, all of the words with EA followed by an R are not long E sounds, but other related sounds. The primary non-R words are the ones where EA makes a long A sound or short E sound, or combined with U in words from French:

Long A : break, steak, and great.

Short E : head, thread, bread, breath, death, breadth, breast, read (past tense), lead (element)

Long O (eau trigraph) : beau, bureau, tableau

The EA with R has four different sounds:

Umlaut A or "ar" sound : heart, hearth

Caret A or "air" sound : bear, pear, wear -- much like long A

Caret I or "ear" sound : hear, dear -- much like a long E, but with a following "ur"

Caret U or "ur" sound : earl, pearl, earth, dearth -- much like schwa

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